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“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.”

Knows World Way Soul Self Spirit Suffering Loneliness Solitude Overcoming Bitter Midst Multiplicity Indivisible Spirit And Soul

Author:Hermann Hesse

“I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.”

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Author:Jonathan Ames

“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

“Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.”

Looks Loneliness Sweet Solitude Absence Being Alone

Author:Milan Kundera

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”

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

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”

Men Water Rooms Darkness Loneliness Pride Solitude Each Day Dependent Sunlight Another Man

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

Dark Loneliness Solitude Consolation Deep Dark

Book:Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

“There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tiny bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.”

Source: Sula

“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

“He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.”

Mind Humans Reason Understanding Loneliness Solitude Capable Difficulty Absolutes Spokes Sophisticated Impossibility Misunderstood Straws

Book:Man Walks Into a Room

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace”

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Book:The Good Guy

Source: The Good Guy

“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.”

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.”

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Book:The Haunted Baronet

Source: The Haunted Baronet

“Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.”

Loneliness Solitude Constant Enjoyed Ache Jamie

Book:Master of the Game

Source: Master of the Game

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

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Author:Ellen Burstyn

“The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.”

“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”

Feelings Felt Loneliness Solitude Infinite

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.”

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Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

“For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”

Love Faces Company Loneliness Solitude True Love Crowds Real Friends Gallery No Love Cymbals

Author:Francis Bacon

“Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]”

Stills Soul Spirit Hours Dark Loneliness Solitude Silent Crowds Thee Gray Secrecy Tombstone Dark Thoughts

Book:The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): The Raven, Tamerlane, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…

Source: The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): The Raven, Tamerlane, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…

“...loneliness is not a function of solitude.”

Loneliness Solitude Function

Book:Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.”

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Author:Thomas Merton

“loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.”

Answers Silence Loneliness Solitude Conversation Roots Eternity Internals

Author:Miley Cyrus

“Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.”

Sin Loneliness Lovers Solitude Darling

Book:The Spy Who Loved Me: James Bond 007

Source: The Spy Who Loved Me: James Bond 007

“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.”

“Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.”

Kind Different Loneliness Solitude Lonely

Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“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

“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.”

Loneliness Solitude Solve Hated Conundrums

Book:Life After Life

Source: Life After Life

“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.”

Loneliness Solitude Introvert Being Alone Loner Loneliness And Solitude Feeling Alone

Book:Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

Source: Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

“Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.”

Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

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

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Author:Warsan Shire

“When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.”

Feels Loneliness Solitude Being Alone Feeling Lonely Alone Lonely

Author:Alfred Polgar

“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

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.”

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

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

“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”

Creativity Loneliness Serious Solitude Aging Being Alone Serious Work

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

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Author:Nikola Tesla

“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

“Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.”

Wisdom Pay Attention Silence Teacher Loneliness Lessons Solitude Pay Attention Silence Is Great Teacher Feeling Lonely Silence And Peace

Author:Deepak Chopra

“To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.”

Known Loneliness Solitude Oneself

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.”

Firsts Kind Persons Difficult Hours Loneliness Bears Solitude Heavy Agreement First Person Sociability

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“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

“The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.”

Ifs Long Hard Reason Existence Wonder Loneliness Solitude Endure Assurance

Book:Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir

Source: Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir

“I am never less alone than when alone.”

Loneliness Solitude

Book:M. Tullii Ciceronis

Source: M. Tullii Ciceronis

“Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.”

One Thing Loneliness Solitude

Book:I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

Source: I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

“Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.”

May Long Running Company Loneliness Solitude Long Runs

Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.”

Men Loneliness He Man Solitude Lonely Crowds Lonely Man

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.”

Mind Feelings Loneliness Scene Solitude Silent Deeper Former Impress Deserted Pageant

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

“How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.”

May Stills Loneliness Sweet Solitude Passing Passings Grants Retreat

Book:The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1

Source: The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1