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Sometimes we find the sweetest solidarity in the midst of solitude.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
— Robinson Jeffers
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen
The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed.
— Tonya Sheridan
Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.
— Sidney Sheldon
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
— Henry David Thoreau
Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen
There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.
— Robert Breault
In solitude, we lose our loneliness.
— Wendell Berry
Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.
— Haruki Murakami
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
The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude.
— Abhijit Naskar
It is easier to start a war than to end it.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
— Caroline Knapp
Imagination is a spark of a divine light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
— May Sarton
Love is a shared solitude.
— Marty Rubin
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
— Jules Verne
I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.
— Djuna Barnes
He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in a masculine solitude in what might be called the half-acre gunroom of a baronial splendor.
— William Faulkner
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.
— Mary Blakely
Loneliness is one thing, solitude is another.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Solitude where are thou?
— Dew Platt
Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
— Arthur Brisbane
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
— Paul Tillich
Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
— Sam Hunt
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When you become friends with solitude, you will never feel alone again
— Steven Aitchison
To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths.
— Anodea Judith
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
— Honore De Balzac
I find myself in the moment of solitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.
— Melody Beattie
We walk alone in the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Holding on for dear life, I was overcome with the perfect nearness of him, the ache of human solitude nearly conquered.
— Jennifer DeLucy
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
— Will Self
True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know.
— Anton Chekhov
To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.
— George Gissing
You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.
— William Goldman
The starry night sky echoed across my thoughts, the expanse of my own void filtered in its quiet solitude.
— Gina Marinello-Sweeney
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
— Criss Jami
solitude was bliss for now.
— James Dashner
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
— Eugene Ionesco
Life took on quite a special meaning in this early morning solitude.
— Henning Mankell
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.
— Martha Cooley
He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.
— Geraldine Brooks
But your solitude will be your home and haven even in the midst of very strange conditions, and from there you will discover all your paths.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. — Allen Ginsberg
Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
— Alfred Polgar
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.
— George Herbert
To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.
— Pope Paul VI
My wilderness training was 4 years and 10 months of solitude, search and study.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Tongues wrangled dark at a man.He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. — Carl Sandburg
This desire for solitude often overcomes her at house-cleaning times.
— Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
There is much to be said for solitude.
— Douglas Kennedy
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
— James F. Cooper
Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve.
— Kate Atkinson
Friendship, a dear balm...A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.
— Beth Moore
Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.
— Sam Killermann
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
— Henry David Thoreau
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
— Criss Jami
In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.
— Richard Preston
How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.
— Joyce Rachelle
I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
— P.D. James
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.
— Dorothea Brande
Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.
— Eleanor Catton
Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.
— Doreen Virtue