1,686 Quotes About Solitude


  • Author Madeline Miller
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    Daedalus did not long outlive his son. His limbs turned grey, and all his strength was transmuted into smoke. I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation he was to me.

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  • Author Eric Berne
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    Solitary confinement is one of the punishments most dreaded even by prisoners hardened to physical brutality, and is now a notorious procedure for inducing political compliance. (Conversely, the best of the known weapons against compliance is social organization.)

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  • Author John Scalzi
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    There was a reason why Special Forces soldiers hardly ever retired - being retired means losing integration. Losing integration means being alone.

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  • Author Jacques Attali
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    in a society in which power is so abstract that it can no longer be seized, in which the worst threat people feel is solitude and not alienation, conformity to the norm becomes the pleasure of belonging, and the acceptance of powerlessness takes root in the comfort of repetition.

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  • Author Lucy Foley
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    Remove all of the distractions, and here, in the silence and the solitude, the demons they have kept at bay catch up with them.

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  • Author Jim Carrey
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    Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.”– Jim Carrey

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  • Author Tahar Ben Jelloun
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    Nous avons passé trop d'années ensemble. Je ne peux même pas dire que nous vieillissons ensemble. Je vieillis seul ou, plus exactement, nous vieillissons chacun de son côté, chacun dans son coin.

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