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• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Practice, Civilization, Solitude

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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  Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Gregarious, Sociable

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

  Eda LeShan

  Single, Self Esteem, Loneliness

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• I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Home, Long, Bird

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 07, 2012

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• By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Clouds, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1492, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

  Jodie Foster

  War, Being Alone, Interesting

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• I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.

  Louis Bayard

  Elbows

  Louis Bayard (2009). “The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

  Kevin Kline

  Determined, Life Is

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• In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

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• If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Journey, Doe, Fool

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Reflection, Clouds, Long

  James Anthony Froude (1914). “Short studies on great subjects”

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• I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

  Anthony Hopkins

  People, Personality, Solitude

  "'20/20': Walters Interviews Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com.

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• Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mad, Solitude, Remember

  "Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life".

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• If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Communication, Passion, Men

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• There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

  Alexander Pope

  Loneliness, Solitude, Devil

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.123

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• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Race, Long

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• Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Book, Thinking, Long

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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• As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.

  Black Francis

  Creative, Brain, Paint

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery — we may only wander, awed and spellbound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sea, Voice, Forever

  "Anne of Green Gables: three volumes in one".

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• There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

  Anton Chekhov

  Numbers, People, Trying

  "The Man in a Case". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

  Walter Benjamin

  Love, Dream, Lovers

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• ... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

  Margaret Deland

  Justice, Soul, Different

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• When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we spend together at the kitchen table, the more how-to books appear in the stores and on our bookshelves. But reading such books is a very different thing than listening to someone' s lived experience. Because we have stopped listening to each other we may even have forgotten how to listen, stopped learning how to recognize meaning and fill ourselves from the ordinary events of our lives. We have become solitary; readers and watchers rather than sharers and participants.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Book, Reading, Kitchen

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Penguin

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