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Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.


Robert Fulghum

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ASCETIC ANGEL Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
MAY SARTON Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
MAY SARTON He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – t...
SUZANNE COLLINS ...the natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk im...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
MAGGIE SMITH Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.
FRED ROGERS I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary l...
BILL NIGHY You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes ...
MUNIA KHAN It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the ...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE Exile from society allows person to disengage from meaningless activities and develop conscious awar...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When everyone leaves you it’s loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it’s solitude.
ALFRED POLGAR Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “lo...
PAUL TILLICH Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has...
RAINER MARIA RILKE [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for on...
RAINER MARIA RILKE There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk f...
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ALBERT CAMUS In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-...
OKEY NDIBE It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason t...
RAINER MARIA RILKE It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason t...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Solitude is not a group activity.
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
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TEKOA MANNING Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU There is no greater companion like books.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the sam...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no wor...
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THOMAS MERTON It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more ...
THOMAS MERTON We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of ...
HERMANN HESSE Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
HONORé DE BALZAC Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.
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GEORGE GORDON BYRON A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
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CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
ASHLEIGH One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
PATRICIA SAMPSON Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNANIMO He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.
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JULES RENARD Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The...
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OCTAVIO PAZ To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitteres...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything...
BALTASAR GRACIAN Silence is one great art of conversation.
ANONYMOUS The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
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PAUL TILLICH The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with o...
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GUY DE MAUPASSANT Consider A Move

The steady time of being unknown,
in solitude, without friends,
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DAVID MARKSON There is a society in the deepest solitude.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER It was solitary, because they believed that He is nearer to us in solitude, and there were no priest...
CHARLES EASTMAN I long for the solitude
of a sunset at sea,
and the chill of the breeze
coming in with the...
R.C. GIBBONS The best thinking is done in solitude not in turmoil.
APURVA GAGLANI There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Doing fine...Doing fine... Life is as a rose pedal floating in the wind. A daisy caught up in the so...
JUSTIN D WHITEHEAD A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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AVIJEET DAS The theologian Paul Tillich wrote that "loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solit...
JEROLD J. KREISMAN Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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CAROLYN G. HEILBRUN When everyone leaves you it’s loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it’s solitude.
ALFRED POLGAR Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUST Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
NAOMI JUDD Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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CRISS JAMI Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, a...
ALICE KOLLER Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Solitude is the place of purification.
MARTIN BUBER Solitude is the house of peace.
T.F. HODGE Solitude is the nest of thoughts.
VIKRANT PARSAI For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA . . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
VIRGINIA WOOLF In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p...
ANAïS NIN You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude
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ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
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