Motivational Quotes

Solitude

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Solitude

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

Herbert, George

A man by himself is in bad company.

Hoffer, Eric

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Kundera, Milan

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Solitude is un-American.

Jong, Erica

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Sterne, Laurence

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marvell, Andrew

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Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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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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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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 good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

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

Chekhov, Anton

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Thoreau, Henry David

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