Motivational Quotes

Solitude

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

- Home, Henry

Best Quotes about Solitude

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

We never touch but at points.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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I have never found a companion so 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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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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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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In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

Mathews, William

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In solitude, where we are least alone.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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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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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid

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

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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

Cowper, William

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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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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Smith, Sydney

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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Solitude begets whimsies.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Hoagland, Edward

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Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Kundera, Milan

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This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Herbert, George

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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

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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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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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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 un-American.

Jong, Erica

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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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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boufflers

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

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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