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Quotes About Solitude

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
~ Louis Aragon
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
~ Richard Linklater
Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
~ Richard Crashaw
How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.
~ Lorenz Hart
I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.
~ Laurieann Gibson
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
~ William Shakespeare
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time
~ Hannah Arendt
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
~ Erich Fromm
I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.
~ Dakota Johnson
I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.
~ Aurora Aksnes
We live as we dream - alone.
~ Joseph Conrad
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
~ Nikki Giovanni
A garden is a friend you can visit any time.
~ Okakura Kakuzo
I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you.
~ Giannis Ritsos
I keep to myself, but I love life.
~ Clea Duvall
The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.
~ Emile M. Cioran
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.
~ Mary Oliver
When you're an introvert like me and you've been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It's a real release.
~ Lana Del Rey
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.
~ Erika Slezak
What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca