Motivational Quotes

Solitude

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

Best Quotes about Solitude

This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Solitude is un-American.

Jong, Erica

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Browne, Jackson

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

Sterne, Laurence

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

12.

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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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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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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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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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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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Renard, Jules

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Smith, Sydney

23.

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

24.

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

Mathews, William

25.

Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Chekhov, Anton

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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

33.

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 man by himself is in bad company.

Hoffer, Eric

35.

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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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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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid

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

Herbert, George

40.

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

Marvell, Andrew

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

44.

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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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.

Byron, Lord

47.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

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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Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Home, Henry