Quotes with solitude

  • Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
  • Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
  • Eagles that love the high light-penetrated air, that has no dust and clog of earthborn dust, must ever dwell in solitude.
  • Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
  • To live in the present only is as unnatural as to live in solitude.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Albert Einstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Gian Vincenzo Gravina A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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  • Oscar Wilde A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Billy Campbell Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Alice Koller Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
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  • Ouida Eagles that love the high light-penetrated air,
    that has no dust and clog of earthborn dust,
    must ever dwell in solitude.
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    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • E. M. Cioran Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent - unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it - we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Jonathan Franzen Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
    Farther Away: Essays (2012) 40
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • John Milton For solitude sometimes is best society,
    And short retirement urges sweet return.
    Paradise lost (1667) IX, 249
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bradley Chicho Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Jorge Luis Borges I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Alan Watts I owe my solitude to other people.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Ben Foster I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • James Baldwin If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Publilius Syrus If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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