Motivational Quotes

Solitude

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

- Dunaway, Faye

Best Quotes about Solitude

An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Miller, Henry

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Renard, Jules

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Hoffer, Eric

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Mann, Thomas

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Smith, Sydney

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Einstein, Albert

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

Hoagland, Edward

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

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Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Einstein, Albert

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In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

Weil, Simone

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The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

Herbert, George

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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

Wordsworth, William

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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Dunaway, Faye

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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Connolly, Cyril

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This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

Milton, John

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

Lowell, James Russell

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May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.

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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid

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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Mabie, Hamilton

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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would mark.

Sa, Carl

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Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Home, Henry

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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

Herbert, George

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

Blanchot, Maurice

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If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

Chekhov, Anton

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One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict -- girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Percival, Lord

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The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.

Brandeis, Louis D.

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Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

Johnson, Samuel

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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

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Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb, Spanish

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The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Edison, Thomas A.

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Sterne, Laurence

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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Solitude is un-American.

Jong, Erica

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone.

Marvell, Andrew

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We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.

Boufflers

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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Camus, Albert

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Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

Cioran, E. M.