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

—Anita Krizzan

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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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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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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

—Axel Munthe

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When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

—Antonio Porchia

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Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

—Anaïs Nin

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To speak your Heart outnothing can be better than Night and Acoustic guitar !!

—Dinakar Phillip

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So I forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and go out and connect with people. I realised that no one knew me here. I could become whoever I wanted to be for...

—Charlotte Eriksson

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He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

—Douglas Adams

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Intimacy between people requires closeness as well as distance. It is like dancing. Sometimes we are very close, touching each other or holding each other; sometimes we move away from each other and let the...

—Henri J.M.

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Sometimes I look out the window out into the big, bright world and stare at people. Passers-by who live their ordinary lives and experience a full range of extraoridnary emotions. I stare at them for...

—Daniel Gyorki

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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to...

—George Santayana

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Ma SolitudePour avoir si souvent dormiAvec ma solitudeJe m’en suis fait presqu’une amieUne douce habitudeEll’ ne me quitte pas d’un pasFidèle comme une ombreElle m’a suivi çà et làAux quatre coins du mondeNon, je ne...

—Georges Moustaki

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For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life–real life–was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured. If Phillip was with her, the solitude she needed would be...

—Kevin Brockmeier

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Set a daily solitude time for reflection and rethinking.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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You can’t ever really have enough worth that when you’re gone, the spot you left won’t close over.

—Laura Florand

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The Old Poets Of ChinaWherever I am, the world comes after me.It offers me its busyness. It does not believethat I do not want it. Now I understandwhy the old poets of China went so...

—Mary Oliver

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For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission of the intellectual who is truly a prophet—to cry in the desert. The...

—José Ortega

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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

—John Nelson Darby

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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

—Michel de

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Solitude stands by the window/ She turns her head as I walk in the room/ I can see by her eyes she’s been waiting/ Standing in the slant of the late afternoon

—Suzanne Vega

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Never forget that solitude is my lot … I implore those who love me to love my solitude.”(Letter to Mimi Romanelli, May 11, 1910)

—Rainer Maria

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I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city’s mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last. But I...

—Sylvia Plath

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Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It’s why I prefer solitude to social interaction. – Bethany

—Sherrilyn Kenyon

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There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.

—Sadegh Hedayat

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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.”(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

—Thomas Jefferson

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Here must thou be, O man,Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here —Here keepest thou thy individual state:No other can divide with thee this work,No secondary hand can interveneTo fashion this ability. ‘Tis...

—William Wordsworth

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But the delights of solitude don’t only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

—Anna Neagle

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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.

—Alan Bennett

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Living alone,’ November whispered, ‘is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become like a language: to...

—Catherynne M.

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One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.

—Dan Pearce

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The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

—Criss Jami

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature...

—George Gordon

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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

—George MacDonald

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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the...

—Henry David Thoreau

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I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give...

—Gaston Bachelard

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Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open...

—Dean Koontz

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After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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SolitudeThere is a charm in Solitude that cheersA feeling that the world knows nothing ofA green delight the wounded mind endearsAfter the hustling world is broken offWhose whole delight was crime at good to scoffGreen...

—John Clare

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I am afflicted with the power of thought, which is a heavy curse. The less a person thinks and inquires regarding the why and the wherefore and the justice of things, when dragging along through...

—Miles Franklin

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I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed...

—May Sarton

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Maybe you’ve understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great...

—Orhan Pamuk

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Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.

—Mehmet Murat

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Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.

—Sam Killermann

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We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It...

—Storm Jameson

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