Motivational Quotes

Solitude

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Solitude

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

Dahlberg, Edward

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Marvell, Andrew

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Solitude begets whimsies.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

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We never touch but at points.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herbert, George

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

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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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A man by himself is in bad company.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.

Byron, Lord

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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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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Smith, Sydney

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Solitude is un-American.

Jong, Erica

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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid

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

Boufflers

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Renard, Jules

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The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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