Quotes about solitude

"To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude."

Addison, Joseph on solitude
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

Bacon, Francis on solitude
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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 on solitude
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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 on solitude
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"The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold."

Boufflers on solitude
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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. on solitude   

"Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily."

Brisbane, Arthur on solitude
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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 on solitude
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"This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude."

Bruyere, Jean De La on solitude
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"In solitude, where we are least alone."

Byron, Lord on solitude
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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 on solitude   

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

Carlyle, Thomas on solitude
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"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are."

Cecil, Robert on solitude
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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 on solitude
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"If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry."

Chekhov, Anton on solitude
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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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. on solitude
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"The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food."

Connolly, Cyril on solitude   

"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 on solitude
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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 on solitude
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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 on solitude   

"I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged."

Dunaway, Faye on solitude   

"The best thinking has been done in solitude."

Edison, Thomas A. on solitude
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"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

Einstein, Albert on solitude
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"Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature."

Einstein, Albert on solitude
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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 on solitude
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"Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"We walk alone in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"We never touch but at points."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"The good and the wise lead quiet lives."

Euripides on solitude
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"I want to be left alone."

Garbo, Greta on solitude
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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 on solitude   

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

Herbert, George on solitude   

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

Hoagland, Edward on solitude   

"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 on solitude   

"A man by himself is in bad company."

Hoffer, Eric on solitude   

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

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

Huxley, Aldous on solitude
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