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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

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. — Frank Muir

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

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die. — Lord Byron

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

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection. — Paul Auster

The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude. — Abhijit Naskar

Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away. — Nikki Rowe

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

Cause if you're happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay. — Tanya Davis

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

If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the entire universe. — Siren Waroe

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

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself. — John Donne

Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude. — Sam Hunt

In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two. — Hannah

Only the wind shatters the silence. I have been here before choking in solitude. — Nikki Grimes

What is really scary is running naked inside yourself, revealing the real you. — Wes Adamson

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

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — C.S. Lewis

When you become friends with solitude, you will never feel alone again — Steven Aitchison

Maybe, Keller thinks, I've become too used to solitude. Maybe I like it too much. — Don Winslow

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude — John J. Geddes

Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present. — Gwen Davis

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

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely. — Susan Wiggs

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. — Jeremy Collier

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

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it. — Luis Barragan

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

Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ... — Muse

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes. — Pope Paul VI

If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go. — Stewart Udall

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Marcel Proust

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

Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult. — James Salter

Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers. — Laurie R. King

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

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

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

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C.S. Lewis

One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day. — Dan Pearce

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