Best Solitude Qoutes
1273 Solitude quotes by 725 unique authors
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
— Jonathan Swift
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold…
— Albert Camus
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
— Alice Hegan Rice
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Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Solitude is the mother of anxieties.
— Publilius Syrus
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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
— Lily Tomlin
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Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how…
— Roger Ascham
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We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.-…
— Erica Jong
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In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is a society in the deepest solitude.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
— Thomas Gray
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We walk alone in the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Solitude is un-American.
— Erica Jong
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O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings
— John Keats
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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…
— John Milton
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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…
— Emile M. Cioran
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We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
— Edward Dahlberg
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
— George Herbert
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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.
— Ovid
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True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
— Edward Hoagland
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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)…
— Simone Weil
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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…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent…
— Theophile Gautier
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The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
— Riccardo Muti
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