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Solitude  Quotes
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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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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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 sometimes happened: from time to time, Dantès, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an imperative need for solitude. And what solitude is more vast and more poetic than that of a ship...

—Alexandre Dumas

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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

—Anna Neagle

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If one sets aside timefor a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition,that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is...

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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… relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

—Catherynne M.

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For I’m afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don’t mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean...

—Elizabeth von

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I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

—Djuna Barnes

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… all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle his own eternity of aloneness. And love from one being to another can...

—Han Suyin

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He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.

—D.H. Lawrence

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Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one’s self?

—Edith Wharton

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The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and further encode their feelings. The thickness of the tarpaulin cover is as the...

—Dalit Orbach

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Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

—Guru Nanak

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I go, I go away, I walk, I wander, and everywhere I go I bear my shell with me, I remain at home in my room, among my books, I do not approach an inch...

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world – there I am a child – there they do not know me not even my most intimate acquaintance – I...

—John Keats

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How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

—Mary Doria

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There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person...

—May Sarton

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Samoća nije živeti sam, samoća je kad nismo sposobni da pravimo društvo nekome ili nečemu što se nalazi duboko u nama, samoća nije usamljeno drvo nasred puste ravnice, to je rastojanje između skrivenih sokova i...

—José Saramago

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Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!

—Mehmet Murat

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Et quelqu’un qui parle. À lui-même. Pour ne pas être tout seul.

—Michel Schneider

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Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

—Stephanie Dowrick

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Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I’ve never minded about it.

—Sebastian Faulks

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I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed toward the South Pole. Presently the wind cups...

—Richard Evelyn

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You end up isolated if you don’t cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people...

—Sherry Turkle

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Septimus has been working too hard” – that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

—Virginia Woolf

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For her a day of pampering meant comic books, black liquorice, serious exercise, veggie curry and, above all, solitude.

—Salla Simukka

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From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood....

—Betty Smith

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

—Aldous Huxley

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being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

—Charles Bukowski

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She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or...

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know it was here. Or any of the other places down the avenue. I couldn’t see...

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Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

—Honoré de

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I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which...

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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His cigarettes helped mark the passage of time, especially on days that seemed all sun and sky…The dependable dwindling of his cigarette supply reassured him that he hadn’t been left out here, that eventually he...

—Claire Vaye

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I hate solitude, but I’m afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need...

—Iris Murdoch

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Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

—Jean Rhys

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I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can’t give up love. Maybe it’s the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in...

—Jeanette Winterson

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We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts,...

—Mother Teresa

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I had a cup of tea, thought about my day and mostly about the horse whom, though I’d only known him a short time, I called my friend. I have few friends and am glad...

—Leonora Carrington

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We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of...

—Mark Twain

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In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die

—Katja Michael

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In truth, she disliked books. She felt a peculiar disquiet when opening the pages. She had felt it since childhood. She did not know why. Something in the act itself, the immersion, the seclusion, was...

—Sarah Hall

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For here, inside the crypt, was where he truly lived. Which is to say, for well over twenty hours a day in total darkness and in total silence and in total immobility, he sat on...

—Patrick Süskind

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