Solitude Quotes - Page 5

• It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.626, Penguin UK

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• In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

  Laurence Sterne

  Strength, Wisdom, Loneliness

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Halloween, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I owe my solitude to other people.

  Alan Watts

  People

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• races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Opportunity, Race, Years

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• 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

  Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Advice, Sloth, Laziness

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (letter to Boswell, 27 Oct. 1779)

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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, Secret

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

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• In solitude, where we are least alone.

  Lord Byron

  Marriage, Wise, Wisdom

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.112, Cambridge University Press

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

  Marya Mannes

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Space

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• Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

  Pablo Picasso

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Creativity

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• Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Crowds, Hours, Get Away

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• By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

  George Herbert

  Mean, Meditation, Soul

  "The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel".

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• In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

  George Herbert

  Multitudes, Thyself

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• 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

  Sweet, Loneliness, May

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.237

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• Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

  Paul Tillich

  Loneliness, Bears, Loneliness And Solitude

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• I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

  Edward Everett

  Life, Responsibility, Oneness

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• There is a society in the deepest solitude.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 729-31, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), Chapter X, 1922.

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• Then never less alone than when alone.

  Samuel Rogers

  'Human Life' (1819) l. 755

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• One is inspired only in solitude.

  Gary Gilmore

  Inspired

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• How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sweet, Passing, Passings

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• By all means use sometimes to be alone.

  George Herbert

  Mean, Use, Sometimes

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.8

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• That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Inward, Bliss

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving

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