Motivational Quotes

Solitude

Solitude is un-American.

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Solitude

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

Huxley, Aldous

Solitude is un-American.

Jong, Erica

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

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

Chekhov, Anton

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

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

Herbert, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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

11.

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

Renard, Jules

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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 best thinking has been done in solitude.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A man by himself is in bad company.

Hoffer, Eric

22.

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

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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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Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Kundera, Milan

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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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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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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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This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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In solitude, where we are least alone.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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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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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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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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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Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

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

Boufflers

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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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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid