Motivational Quotes

Solitude

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

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Best Quotes about Solitude

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Miller, Henry

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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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: a sweet absence of looks.

Kundera, Milan

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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 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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In solitude, where we are least alone.

Byron, Lord

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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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Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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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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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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A man by himself is in bad company.

Hoffer, Eric

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This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Sterne, Laurence

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Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

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

Boufflers

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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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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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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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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Solitude begets whimsies.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Marvell, Andrew

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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We never touch but at points.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chekhov, Anton