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Solitude

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

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Best Quotes about Solitude

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

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

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

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Smith, Sydney

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

Sterne, Laurence

Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

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

Miller, Henry

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.

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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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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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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A man by himself is in bad company.

Hoffer, Eric

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Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Kundera, Milan

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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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The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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 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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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.

Byron, Lord

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

Boufflers

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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid

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

Mathews, 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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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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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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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

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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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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 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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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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This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chekhov, Anton

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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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We never touch but at points.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hoagland, Edward