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Solitude  Quotes
I choose solitude over cold kisses. If it isn’t love, it is poison.

—Anita Krizzan

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Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.

—Criss Jami

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Aloneness is a gift. A beautiful gift to the human soul. True and consistent satisfaction comes from the bond you form with yourself. Nobody else is a constant

—Mohadesa Najumi

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I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can...

—Steve Goodier

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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

—Franz Kafka

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Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to...

—Steve Goodier

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People say they are alone. But to whom do they say that? (Les gens disent qu’ils sont seuls. – Mais à qui le disent-ils?)

—Charles de Leusse

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Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery...

—Albert Camus

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I can’t help you, I can only guide you, and you are the one who can help yourself.

—Durgesh Satpathy

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This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.

—Sanober Khan

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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.”[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)]

—William O.

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The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had...

—Peter Hessler

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What did I fear, and why? — I, to whom the night had beena more familiar facethan that of man —I, in whom that element of hereditary superstition from which none of us is altogether...

—Ambrose Bierce

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They were both from the real world, their own distinct ones, but I was somewhere in limbo. Set apart, I didn’t know how to let either of them in.

—Amina Gautier

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The truth is that I know nothing, so don’t ask me if I am breathing still. though day is nice, night kills. I have this a very small chip in my brain programmed in to...

—Aster

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I’ve learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace

—Carlos Ruiz

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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.

—Franz Kafka

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From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes. But in reality, this solitary sanctuary i inhabit, allows my artistic nature to...

—Jaeda DeWalt

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I’ll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I’ll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

—Everett Ruess

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Even brave men, and D’Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

—Edgar Rice

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Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes and create an internal state of resonance. In such a...

—Daniel J.

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En el fondo, seguía siendo, y siempre sería, una niña tímida que sólo se sentía a gusto en una soledad montaraz.

—Irène Némirovsky

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I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no...

—Fernando Pessoa

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You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed in your mind.

—Meister Eckhart

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my dearest agony let us be together, i am not seasoned for this solitude.

—Nation C

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Relationship Time to Aloneness.” Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present...

—John Steinbeck

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Sometimes isolation can be shared.

—Ken Grimwood

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Alone you’re refinding a glittering, a clarity, you’re finding your distilled self. …You think of the two types of aloneness you’ve known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the...

—Nikki Gemmell

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Language … has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.

—Paul Tillich

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He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.

—Patrick Süskind

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I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

—Rainer Maria

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Caminhei por entre as árvores gigantescas, a sentir o peso da minha pequenez. Por momentos senti-me aliviada; se o mundo era tão grande, não devia importar o que uma pessoa tão pequena como eu sentia,...

—Patricia Morais

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In order to work with difficult outer circumstances, we need to gather our inner strength. If even ten or twenty minutes of meditation a day helps us to do this, let’s go for it!

—Pema Chödrön

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When I was a child, I thought,Casually, that solitudeNever needed to be sought.Something everybody had,Like nakedness, it lay at hand,Not specially right or specially wrong,A plentiful and obvious thingNot at all hard to understand.Then, after...

—Philip Larkin

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I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a...

—Sara Quin

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Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God and learns something of the secret of His perfections...

—Thomas Merton

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Tea should be taken in solitude.

—C.S. Lewis

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The ambiance of solitude, the absence of any disturbing noise and of worldly desires and images, the quiet and calm attention of the mind to God, helped by prayer and leisurely reading, flow into that...

—Carthusian Monks

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I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am free from the distractions constantly arising in civilized life from social...

—Alexander Humboldt

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I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

—H. Beam

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You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact…you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon and not as pensive of mind as Kenzie. They rely...

—David Petersen

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…freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen years’ slavery. The man who lives on his own land is an independent man. He...

—Halldór Laxness

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solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also that God is actively present in our lives– healing, teaching and...

—Henri J.M.

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The Abandoned ValleyCan you understand being alone so longyou would go out in the middle of the nightand put a bucket into the wellso you could feel something down theretug at the other end of...

—Jack Gilbert

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I was downstairs, reading.”” Now?” I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared.”Yes, now,” she said. “It’s nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark...

—Elizabeth Berg

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Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents’ small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at...

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I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen...

—L.M. Montgomery

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Writing begins as a solitary obsession and ends up as communication.

—Marty Rubin

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In Letters to a Young Poe, Rilke says, ‘The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.’ That’s what I want. For other people to love each other without having...

—Kristen Kosmas

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Solitude
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If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

—Jodi Picoult

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