Solitude Quotes by Aldous Huxley

15 Solitude quotes by Aldous Huxley

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Huxley’s reflections on being alone are both contemplative and sharply observant. Across fifteen entries, he offers a thoughtful, often paradoxical take on the quiet moments that shape us.

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“If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely. They’re beastly to one.”

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If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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“they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could…

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

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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its…

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“Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied…

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We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...]…

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“For Pamela, dinner in solitude, especially the public solitude of hotels, was a punishment. Companionlessness and compulsory silence depressed her. Besides, she…

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In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential…

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“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The…

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“I am not very sociable and am always glad to return to solitude and the freedom that goes with solitude. This desire…

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“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The…

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“From solitude in the womb, we emerge into solitude among our Fellows, and return again to solitude within the Grave. We pass…

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“This day fifty years ago I was born. From solitude in the Womb, we emerge into solitude among our Fellows, and return…

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“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The…

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