Motivational Quotes

Solitude

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

- Browne, Jackson

Best Quotes about Solitude

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

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

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

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Smith, Sydney

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid

I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Thoreau, Henry David

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Marvell, Andrew

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Mathews, William

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Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Kundera, Milan

14.

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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Solitude is un-American.

Jong, Erica

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Huxley, Aldous

18.

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

Renard, Jules

19.

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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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Camus, Albert

21.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

25.

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

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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

27.

Go away, I'm all right!

Wells, H.G.

28.

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

29.

A man by himself is in bad company.

Hoffer, Eric

30.

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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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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The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Miller, Henry

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Solitude begets whimsies.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

35.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Proverb, Spanish

40.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Byron, Lord

41.

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

Boufflers

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

Sterne, Laurence

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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

45.

We never touch but at points.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.

Brandeis, Louis D.