Motivational Quotes

Solitude

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

Best Quotes about Solitude

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

Miller, Henry

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal, Henri B.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Gaulle, Charles De

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

This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Quincey, Thomas De

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Herbert, George

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

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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Cowley, Abraham

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The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

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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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Solitude is un-American.

Jong, Erica

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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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Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

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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.

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We never touch but at points.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man by himself is in bad company.

Hoffer, Eric

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You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.

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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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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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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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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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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Smith, Sydney

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

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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Chekhov, Anton

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Solitude begets whimsies.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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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In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

Mathews, William

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Marvell, Andrew

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In solitude, where we are least alone.

Byron, Lord

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

Boufflers

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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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: a sweet absence of looks.

Kundera, Milan

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There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

Kottler, Jeffrey

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Herbert, George