Motivational Quotes

Solitude

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Solitude

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

Browne, Jackson

I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb, Spanish

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Einstein, Albert

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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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

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

Renard, Jules

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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Smith, Sydney

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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Mabie, Hamilton

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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Solitude begets whimsies.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Boufflers

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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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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

25.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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 is un-American.

Jong, Erica

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

Chekhov, Anton

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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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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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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.

33.

Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

34.

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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In solitude, where we are least alone.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Herbert, George

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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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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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This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We never touch but at points.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Kundera, Milan