A Quote by Berthold Auerbach

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

Berthold Auerbach

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Companion Friend Healing Solitude Work

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Berthold Auerbach
German - Author
February 28, 1812 - February 8, 1882

Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.

Samuel Johnson

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

Pierre Alechinsky

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

Leigh Hunt

After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend

George Foreman

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

Joseph Addison

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

Naomi Judd

Solitude is the companion of warriors.

Chris Eubank Sr.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

William Jay

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.

Sarah McLachlan

Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.

Elijah Muhammad

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

Jose Mujica

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.