Motivational Quotes

Solitude

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

Best Quotes about Solitude

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

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

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

Boufflers

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

Renard, Jules

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

Dunaway, Faye

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

Chekhov, Anton

I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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 the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Sterne, Laurence

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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid

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We never touch but at points.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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A man by himself is in bad company.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Browne, Jackson

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

Einstein, Albert

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Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Kundera, Milan

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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

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In solitude, where we are least alone.

Byron, Lord

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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

30.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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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 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

44.

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

Herbert, George

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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 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.