Best loneliness & solitude Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

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Author:Aristotle

“Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.”

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Book:A listening heart: the art of contemplative living

Source: A listening heart: the art of contemplative living

“How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.”

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Book:Bluets

Source: Bluets

“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

“There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt”

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Book:The Lyrics: Since 1962

Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.”

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Author:John D. Voelker

“Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.”

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Book:From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

“as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.”

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Book:Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

Source: Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

“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

“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.”

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Author:Vivian Gornick

“To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.”

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Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

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

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Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.”

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Author:Tom Hanks

“Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.”

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Author:Galway Kinnell

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

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Author:Gretchen Rubin

“One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.”

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Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying. they just forgot to mention she was kind.”

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Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“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

“Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.”

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Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.”

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Book:Bluets

Source: Bluets

“Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.”

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Book:Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

Source: Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

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

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.”

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Author:Dwight Yoakam

“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

“Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.”

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Author:Anna Neagle

“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

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Author:Eugene O'Neill

“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

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”

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Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“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

“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.”

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Author:Paul Valery

“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

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”

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Author:Franz Kafka

“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.”

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