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Quotes About Solitude

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
~ Karen Armstrong
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
I owe my solitude to other people.
~ Alan Watts
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
~ Jules Verne
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
~ Elie Wiesel
Solitude begets whimsies.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
~ Maggie Smith
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
~ Jose Mujica
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
~ Kevin Patterson
How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!
~ William Godwin
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
~ Robert Cecil
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
~ Mason Cooley
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
~ Zane Grey
I cherish my time off and the solitude that comes along with it.
~ Zac Posen
Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
~ Bradley Chicho
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
~ Alan Parker
In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.
~ Sherry Turkle
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
~ Karl Kraus
Sometimes I just need solitude, which is really rather nice.
~ Nigel Pearson
Solitude helps you reflect.
~ Ruskin Bond