Motivational Quotes

Solitude

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

- Chekhov, Anton

Best Quotes about Solitude

Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid

Solitude is un-American.

Jong, Erica

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Kundera, Milan

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Chekhov, Anton

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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

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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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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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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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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 best thinking has been done in solitude.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Renard, Jules

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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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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Smith, Sydney

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Connolly, Cyril