“Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.” PeopleSocialSolitudeBehaviorObservationCriticizeGossipSocial LifeSocial Relationships Author:Ingmar Bergman
“I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in the darkest night, And a social crowd in solitude.” ShouldHumansLightNightSocialFeetSolitudeSightCrowdsWoodsThee Author:Tibullus
“One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestions, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.” WantWritingLittlesBookProblemSocialOne DaySolitudeHundredRootsSocial ProblemsSociability Book:A Casual Commentary Source: A Casual Commentary
“Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.” Life IsSocialImaginationDoubtSolitudeFilledVainSocial LifeWearinessEnnui Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.” MenHeartHappensSocialGrowsGrowing UpSolitudeCeaseDesertSoilForsake Author:Antoine Rivarol
“I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWritingSongSocialSolitudeComfortablePerformersSongwriters Author:Alan Licht
“It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most sympathetic social setting of a workshop composed of friends. It cannot. The work improves there and often the will to work gets valuable nourishment and ideas. But, for good reasons, the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude.” ThinkingWritingIdeasReasonUseSocialSolitudeProfoundValuableSettingSettingsInstructionPatchesSympatheticNourishmentAccommodateWorkshopsUnbroken Book:A Poetry Handbook Source: A Poetry Handbook
“Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.” TodaySocialSleepSolitudeCompetitionSocial LifeExhaustingExhilaratingUnendingCompetitivenessSleeplessness Author:Louis Kronenberger
“One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.” IfsMayWishSocialEnjoyLonelinessOughtSolitudeSilentVariousEmptinessGet AwayHatefulMisanthropic Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann