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Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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JORDAN STRATFORD This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
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MIGUEL DE UNANIMO Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone...
OCTAVIO PAZ I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
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IAN IJH HOWELL My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steal...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
HONORé DE BALZAC Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impress...
HENRY HOME 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.
HONORE DE BALZAC One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
GOETHE Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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LORD BYRON her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.
JANE AUSTEN I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as a...
JOHN KEATS I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a...
BELL HOOKS Solitude begets whimsies.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Solitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSE This delicious Solitude.
ANDREW MARVELL Solitude is the only thing that will never help you make your character.
VIKRANT PARSAI There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made...
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WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creat...
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ISAAC D'ISRAELI Solitude is un-American.
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WILLIAM COWPER Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of o...
WILLIAM COWPER So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give No hollow aid...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) In solitude, when we are least alone.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Among them, but not of them.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) This is to be along; this, this is solitude!
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
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SABRINA WARD HARRISON Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of...
RAINER MARIA RILKE We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE In solitude, where we are least alone.
LORD BYRON Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of mind’s creativity.
ANUJ SOMANY Solitude is like an open-mind buddy helping to identify those who are truly close to our hearts.
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ANUJ SOMANY O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky building...
JOHN KEATS Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit er...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE These days I prefer my own company, those days too
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh,...
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EMILY BRONTë So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers.
THOMAS DOUBLEDAY Nobody with me at sea but myself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a bro...
THOMAS BABINGTON I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the differe...
GRETA GARBO Solitude vivifies; isolation kills
JOSEPH ROUX You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude
AUSTIN O'MALLEY When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone...
GERTRUDE STEIN I restore myself when I'm alone.
MARILYN MONROE If I lost everybody around me for standing up for what I believed in then I'd have no qualms - so on...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL I lived in solitude to be at one with oneself, to remove all external judgement, only now it's inter...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circums...
RAINER MARIA RILKE We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZAC Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
ELLEN BURSTYN The Book of Daniel.
ELLEN BURSTYN You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrat...
MEISTER ECKHART I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAG I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for thi...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.
ARISTOTLE Solitude vivifies; isolation kills
JOSEPH ROUX As soon as we are alone,...inner chaos opens up in us. This chaos can be so disturbing and so confus...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are g...
ANTHONY STORR It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful t...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
GEORGES BATAILLE Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
JOSEPH ROUX

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RACHEL SHELLEY I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I ...
SHELLEY HENNIG I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all th...
SHELLEY WINTERS I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
SHELLEY WINTERS I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza...
SHELLEY HENNIG Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
PERCY SHELLEY It was so cold I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.
SHELLEY BOVEY Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
SHELLEY WINTERS If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
SHELLEY LONG He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh...
GEORGE SHELLEY I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.
SHELLEY HENNIG I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband ...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or y...
SHELLEY DUVALL People ask me, 'How's 'Teen Wolf?' and I tell them it's literally the best job I...
SHELLEY HENNIG We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.
SHELLEY DUVALL I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
SHELLEY FABARES The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to d...
SHELLEY BERMAN And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create ...
SHELLEY DUVALL Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But...
SHELLEY DUVALL Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.
SHELLEY DUVALL While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subvert...
KEVIN SHELLEY Where do you go to get anorexia?
SHELLEY WINTERS Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.
BRUCE SHELLEY a fraternity house. ... He wants you to have a good time whether you're working or not.
BRUCE SHELLEY My boss thinks it's the best entertainment product Microsoft's ever made,
BRUCE SHELLEY They just want to have the action.
BRUCE SHELLEY We do listen to the feedback quite a bit, ... We have at least one or two full-time people who are m...
BRUCE SHELLEY I got into this business to make games that I wanted to play. Turns out that there's millions of peo...
BRUCE SHELLEY We went as high as we could. We were actually putting graphic effects in here you couldn't see on an...
BRUCE SHELLEY The programming team set out to make the best-looking PC game ever.
BRUCE SHELLEY We haven't announced anything and we don't really have anything in development, but we're experiment...
BRUCE SHELLEY We want to do new kinds of games and do new and different things. We've been doing the same game for...
BRUCE SHELLEY I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when w...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
SHELLEY DUVALL