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Image of Andre Gide
Solitude is bearable only with God.
- Andre Gide
Collection: Solitude
Image of William Goyen
Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.
- William Goyen
Collection: Solitude
Image of Witold Gombrowicz
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
- Witold Gombrowicz
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Image of Witold Gombrowicz
Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.
- Witold Gombrowicz
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Image of Matthew Arnold
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!
- Matthew Arnold
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Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Image of George Herbert
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.
- George Herbert
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Image of Wanda Koop
It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.
- Wanda Koop
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Image of Mieczyslaw Jastrun
Solitude is an essential element of poetry.
- Mieczyslaw Jastrun
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Image of Douglas Kennedy
There is much to be said for solitude.
- Douglas Kennedy
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Image of Jackie Kennedy
I am happiest when I am alone.
- Jackie Kennedy
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Image of Elfriede Jelinek
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.
- Elfriede Jelinek
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Image of Brendan Dooling
Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.
- Brendan Dooling
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Image of Kelli Russell Agodon
I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.
- Kelli Russell Agodon
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Image of Marya Mannes
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.
- Marya Mannes
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Image of Ed Simons
The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.
- Ed Simons
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Image of Martha Beck
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
- Martha Beck
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Janet Erskine Stuart
Life is a solitude.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
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Image of Brandon Sanderson
And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you
- Brandon Sanderson
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Image of Jessamyn West
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.
- Jessamyn West
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Image of James Salter
Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.
- James Salter
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Joyce Carol Oates
[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Collection: Solitude
Image of William Shakespeare
I had as lief have been myself alone.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Solitude
Image of Charles Dudley Warner
Isolation breeds conceit.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Collection: Solitude
Image of Tacitus
They make solitude, which they call peace.
- Tacitus
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Image of Andy Rooney
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
- Andy Rooney
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Image of Arthur Schopenhauer
The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Image of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Image of Carl Rogers
I prize the privilege of being alone.
- Carl Rogers
Collection: Solitude
Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
alone, adj. In bad company.
- Ambrose Bierce
Collection: Solitude
Image of Fernando Pessoa
Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
- Fernando Pessoa
Collection: Solitude
Image of Edward Abbey
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
- Edward Abbey
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Image of Samuel Beckett
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
- Samuel Beckett
Collection: Solitude
Image of Dejan Stojanovic
And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.
- Dejan Stojanovic
Collection: Solitude
Image of Claude Monet
One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
- Claude Monet
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Image of Leonardo da Vinci
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Collection: Solitude
Image of Pablo Picasso
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects
- Pablo Picasso
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Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love all waste and solitary places.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Ovid
Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.
- Ovid
Collection: Solitude
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Solitude
Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
I implore those who love me to love my solitude.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Collection: Solitude
Image of Elizabeth Bowen
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.
- Elizabeth Bowen
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Image of Virginia Woolf
. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: Solitude
Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Collection: Solitude