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“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.”

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

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Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.”

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Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.”

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Book:Lonely in America

Source: Lonely in America

“Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”

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Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.”

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Author:Gretchen Rubin

“With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”

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Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

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

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.”

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Author:Yousuf Karsh

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

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

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Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.”

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Author:Bruce Barton

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”

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Author:Octavio Paz

“If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.”

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Author:Jules Renard

“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”

Source: Marriage and Morals

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

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Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”

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Author:Laurence Sterne

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

“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.”

“Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.”

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Book:Essays and Soliloquies

Source: Essays and Soliloquies

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”

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Author:Tennessee Williams

“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”

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Book:You Can't Go Home Again

Source: You Can't Go Home Again

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“Let me tell you this: 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.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.”

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Book:A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel

Source: A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”

“Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”

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Book:The Sugar Queen

Source: The Sugar Queen

“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”

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Author:Ellen Burstyn

“Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.”

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Book:Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”

“Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. But eventually it is best to find a person, the person who will be your mirror. Remember, only in another person's heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you.”

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”

“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“I was never less alone than when by myself.”

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Book:Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

Source: Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”

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Author:Warsan Shire

“The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.”

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Author:Marya Mannes

“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.”

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Author:Eda LeShan

“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

“It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.”

“Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how to be in our solitude, so that we can relate to each other without grabbing on to each other. We can be interdependent but not dependent. Loneliness is rejected despondency. Solitude is shared interdependence.”

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Author:David Spangler

“Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.”

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Author:Guillermo Maldonado

“I want to be left alone.”

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Author:Greta Garbo

“Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.”

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Author:Paul Tillich

“I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.”

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Author:Marilynne Robinson