SOLITUDE QUOTES II

quotations about solitude

Solitude quote

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

MOLIERE

The Misanthrope

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Alone ... The word is life endured and known.
It is the stillness where our spirits walk
And all but inmost faith is overthrown.

SIEGFRIED SASSOON

The Heart's Journey


Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Pale Fire

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The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

JOHN LUBBOCK

Peace and Happiness

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

KAHLIL GIBRAN

The Broken Wings

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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden

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The silent virtues of a good man in solitude are more amiable than all the noisy honors of active life.

MARY FERRIER

attributed, Day's Collacon


love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away ... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Letters to a Young Poet


I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper--Solitude is sweet.

WILLIAM COWPER

Retirement

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Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

OCTAVE MIRBEAU

The Diary of a Chambermaid

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Accepting, then, the years of solitude as perfectly inevitable, one must consider how to pass them, how to keep one's self occupied and amused.

CHARLES DICKENS

Household Words: A Weekly Journal

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This truth--to prove, and make thine own:
Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

"Isolation"

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Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

A. W. TOZER

Of God and Men


Here's to the pain the light of the oncoming train
Come on ode to solitude in chains

H.I.M.

"Ode to Solitude"


Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus

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One may make a solitude in the depths of his own heart, in the midst of a dissipated and worldly life. He may also, when his isolation becomes oppressive, people that solitude with beings after his own heart, and adapted solely to his purposes.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.

THOMAS MANN

Death in Venice

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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Wilhelm Meister

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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.

DORIS GRUMBACH

Fifty Days of Solitude

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However much we value undemanding solitude, we still go on organizing our environment to make sure we don't get enough of it. Clearly, our attitude to solitude is more ambivalent than we like to let on.

JANE POLDEN

Regeneration: Journey Through the Mid-Life Crisis