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Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I wish to be forgotten in silence and solitude. — Jon Carroll Haywood

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. — Robinson Jeffers

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch. — Nadine Gordimer

if we don't have experience with solitude - and this is often the case today - we start to equate loneliness and solitude. — Sherry Turkle

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

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude. — Max Elliott Slade

Cooking out and hanging out aren't really my things," I admit. "I prefer delivery and solitude. — J.M. Darhower

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery. — Molly Haskell

Solitude is the biggest medicine for once peace, It makes your heart pure and calm. — Debolina Bhawal

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

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

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe. — Neel Burton

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide — Sarah McLachlan

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. — Haruki Murakami

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

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. — Maggie Smith

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

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource. — John Keats

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

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding. — Wade Davis

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim. — Caroline Knapp

We all are individual and lonely, like stars which appear so close but millions of miles apart. — Santosh Kalwar

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy. — May Sarton

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. — Jules Verne

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude. — Eugene Delacroix

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes. — Djuna Barnes

It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny. — Archibald Rutledge

One of the best collaborations is between social and solitude. — Ted Agon

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings. — Anne Frank

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing ... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs. — John Braine

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself. — H. Beam Piper

I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess. — Bradford Cox

I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions. — Virginia Woolf

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed. — Robert M. Lindner

Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind. — Thomas Gray

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others. — Richard E. Byrd

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work. — Richard Wagner

We all tell lies to protect our solitude. We deny the truth and present a false image of ourselves to blend into society. — Saleem Haddad

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love. — Martin Heidegger

Religion ... shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude. — William James

Life, time and nature are the three greatest gifts to mankind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! — William Wilberforce

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me. — Joyce Rachelle

In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies. — Mark Burnett

A box sits empty,
wanting to hold and protect.
Hollow tears it cries. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. — Thomas Merton

In order to escape a road of solitude, one has to work hard, and forge a new path with their own power! — Masashi Kishimoto

The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast. — Emil M. Cioran

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

Find some time to seclude yourself from the fuss of life and be face to face with yourself and God — Sunday Adelaja

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes. — Henry Cloud

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude. — Isabel Allende

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

I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it. — Eugene Ionesco

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. — Henry David Thoreau

In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity. — Beth Moore

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

Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible. — Kilroy J. Oldster

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

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

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self? — Henrik Ibsen

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed. — R.D. Ronald

I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood. Here between sea and sea in a fairy wood, I have found a delicate wave-green solitude. — Arthur Symons

And no one realizes we should all, always, look like that, each with his eyes full of horror at his own, inescapable solitude. — Luigi Pirandello

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery. — William Gilmore Simms

I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace ... — John Geddes

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon. — Douglas Adams

He who seeks may easily get lost himself. All solitude is wrong: so say the herd. And long did you belong to the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time. — Helen Rowland

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. — Kahlil Gibran

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. — William Faulkner

She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely. — Joyce Rachelle

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

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

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

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

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced. — Mary Blakely

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

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. — Paul Tillich