Best Solitude Proverbs

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Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world. — Philip O Ceallaigh
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice… — Charles Baxter
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars. — Geraldine McCaughrean
I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for… — Rod McKuen
[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation, aloofness. Only the… — Mati Unt
Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a… — John Murray
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the… — Fleur Adcock
I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when… — Liv Ullmann
I prize the privilege of being alone. — Carl Rogers
For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent… — Sasha Cagen
One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to… — Andrea Seigel
Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude. — Thomas Szasz
If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced. — Mary Blakely
... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius. — Isaac D'Israeli
Solitude can become your most meaningful companion and it can assist you in being a more giving person in your spiritual partnerships. Rather than regarding… — Wayne Dyer
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness… — Sigmund Freud
Society is no comfort, to one not sociable. — William Shakespeare
The thought, the deadly thought of solitude. — John Keats
We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves.… — Rod McKuen
I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now… — Rod McKuen
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources. — Honore de Balzac
Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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