1,686 Quotes About Solitude
- Author Virginia Woolf
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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
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- Author Jenn Granneman
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Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.
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- Author Dag Hammarskjöld
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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- Author Sebastian Faulks
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I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
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- Author Sarah Dessen
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Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
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- Author William Goldman
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You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.
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- Author Saul Bellow
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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...
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- Author Antonio Porchia
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When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
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- Author Paul Valéry
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly
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