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I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that. — Laura Marling

Because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Each man is forever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart. — Alexis De Tocqueville

It's truth to say in all save solitude - and in some sad cases, even then - you can always count on the company of fools. — Jay Kristoff

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet. — Gilbert Ryle

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude. — Thomas Szasz

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. — George Zimmerman

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

...whom I have loved
With such communion, that no place on earth
Can ever be a solitude to me — William Wordsworth

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture. — Louise Erdrich

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. — Guru Nanak

I fear that moments of quietude are on the endangered list; right behind solitude. — Nanette L. Avery

Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved. — Eileen Myles

you are a ring tone on the phone I didn't answer — John Geddes

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness. — Elisabeth Elliot

Both looked back then on the wild revelry ... and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. — Alfred Russel Wallace

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. — Soren Kierkegaard

The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult. — Du Fu

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more. — Martin Amis

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. — Paul Brunton

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone. — Christina Ricci

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility. — Robyn Davidson

I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write. — Avijeet Das

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Silence leads us back to our purpose, and it ignites creativity and vision. — Angela Lynne Craig

They simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the most beautiful
things
on earth? — Charles Bukowski

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love. — Kelli Russell Agodon

We finally realize this one day that our solitude is a blessing for us! — Avijeet Das

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again. — Mason Cooley

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. — Charles Bukowski

i will forever be colliding
with a billion unnamed
undiscovered stars, each of us
on our own orbital paths. — Sanober Khan

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
[The Minotaur] — Albert Camus

Life took on quite a special meaning in this early morning solitude. — Henning Mankell

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult. — Faraaz Kazi

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility. — Dorothea Brande

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare? — Jessica Sorensen

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,
Musing is solitude — William Wordsworth

But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude. THE — Sherry Turkle

For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude — William Wordsworth

I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.
still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, I
will never miss the crowd. — Charles Bukowski

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people. — Anthony Hopkins

At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness. — May Sarton

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is. — Soren Kierkegaard

Abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bodily on earth and souly at somewhere on universe — M.i.shaikh My Self

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one's mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible. — Fennel Hudson

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. — Jeanne Moreau

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me. — William Blake

On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your solitude - the voices inside you. — Elif Shafak

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. — Henry David Thoreau

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude — Arthur Schopenhauer

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. — Sherman Alexie

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude. — Sherry Turkle

Holding on for dear life, I was overcome with the perfect nearness of him, the ache of human solitude nearly conquered. — Jennifer DeLucy

Silence is fine if I am on my own but it's not overly sociable if my husband is around! — Joanna Runciman

We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts. — Tamim Ansary