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• Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

  Martin Luther

  Death, Faith, Loneliness

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• Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

  Moliere

  Scary, Soul, Twenties

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• A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Music, Happy Life

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• God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Absence

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• The strong man is strongest when alone.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Strong, Men, Strong Man

  Friedrich Schiller (1839). “William Tell: An Historical Play”, p.27

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• A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Cheer, Being Alone

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.34

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• If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

  Lord Byron

  Loneliness, Should, Teach

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.188

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• There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Summer, Country, Spring

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• Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Inspiration, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

  Robert Breault

  Community, Soul, Matter

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• Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

  William Cowper

  War, Successful, Rumor

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• Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Self, Wings

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

  John Keats

  Building, Thee, Slopes

  John Keats (1859). “The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life”, p.372

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• Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Encounters, Doing Nothing, Waste

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• In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

  George Herbert

  Mean, Use, Sometimes

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• True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

  Edward Hoagland

  Color, Snow, Track

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Passion, World, Busy

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• I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

  Joshua Slocum

  Book, Being Alone, Self

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.145, Applewood Books

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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

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• He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Bears, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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• Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Lying, Spring

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom (2009). “Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.198, Infobase Publishing

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• Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

  Amelia Barr

  Being Alone, Voice, Comfort

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.317, Library of Alexandria

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  Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

  John Updike

  Acceptance, Self, Perfection

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Greatness, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.263, Library of America

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