Top Solitude Quotes Collection

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Image of Richard E. Byrd
Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.
- Richard E. Byrd
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Image of Meg Rosoff
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?
- Meg Rosoff
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Image of Samuel Rogers
Then never less alone than when alone.
- Samuel Rogers
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Image of Ingmar Bergman
Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.
- Ingmar Bergman
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Image of Eleanor Catton
Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.
- Eleanor Catton
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Image of Arthur Brisbane
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
- Arthur Brisbane
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Image of John Milton
Solitude sometimes is best society.
- John Milton
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Image of Fernando Pessoa
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
- Fernando Pessoa
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Image of Adam Phillips
Transgression is a quest for solitude
- Adam Phillips
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Image of Sarah Hall
Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
- Sarah Hall
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Image of Anne Bronte
No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
- Anne Bronte
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Image of David Markson
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
- David Markson
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Image of Han Suyin
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
- Han Suyin
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Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love tranquil solitude.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Image of Alexandra David-Neel
Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.
- Alexandra David-Neel
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Image of Anthony Burgess
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
- Anthony Burgess
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Image of Ken Danby
I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.
- Ken Danby
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Image of Townes Van Zandt
Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.
- Townes Van Zandt
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Image of Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Nothing is achieved without solitude.
- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
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Image of Hugh Reginald Haweis
Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.
- Hugh Reginald Haweis
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Image of Stephanie Mills
Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.
- Stephanie Mills
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Image of John Lancaster Spalding
Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
- John Lancaster Spalding
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Image of William Allingham
Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.
- William Allingham
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Image of Barbara Holland
No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary.
- Barbara Holland
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Image of Oswald Chambers
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
- Oswald Chambers
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Image of Susan Cain
Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.
- Susan Cain
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Image of Stanislas de Boufflers
The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.
- Stanislas de Boufflers
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Image of Helene Cixous
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.
- Helene Cixous
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Image of Florida Scott-Maxwell
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Image of Steve Schmidt
The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
- Steve Schmidt
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Image of Molly Haskell
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
- Molly Haskell
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Image of George Bird Grinnell
There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.
- George Bird Grinnell
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Image of Anodea Judith
To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths.
- Anodea Judith
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Image of Isaac D'Israeli
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
- Isaac D'Israeli
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Image of Alix Kates Shulman
Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.
- Alix Kates Shulman
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Image of Robert Lucas, Jr.
Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.
- Robert Lucas, Jr.
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Image of Thomas Cole
Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.
- Thomas Cole
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Image of Jose Mujica
Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.
- Jose Mujica
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Image of Philip O Ceallaigh
Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.
- Philip O Ceallaigh
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Image of Laurie Helgoe
Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.
- Laurie Helgoe
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Image of Laurie Helgoe
Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.
- Laurie Helgoe
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Image of Don DeLillo
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
- Don DeLillo
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Image of William Drummond
Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.
- William Drummond
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Image of Pierre Alechinsky
Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.
- Pierre Alechinsky
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Image of Gary Gilmore
One is inspired only in solitude.
- Gary Gilmore
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Image of Stanley Hoffmann
Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.
- Stanley Hoffmann
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Image of Carlos Gavito
The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO.
- Carlos Gavito
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Image of Jonathan Franzen
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
- Jonathan Franzen
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Image of Frances J Roberts
The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.
- Frances J Roberts
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Image of Margaret Fuller
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.
- Margaret Fuller
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