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Quotes About Solitude

Poor Folks have neither any Kindred nor any Friends.
~ Italian proverb
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers, where I can walk undisturbed...
~ Walt Whitman
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance...
~ William Wordsworth, 1804
The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.
~ Author Unknown
Some people breathe through their mouth, some breathe through their nose — I breathe through the pages of a book.
~ Terri Guillemets
But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
~ Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp)
They say that time heals all wounds, but all it's done so far is give me more hours to think about how much I miss you.
~ Terri Guillemets
The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes.
~ Author Unknown
All I wanted,' London said later, 'was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don't know it.
~ Jack London
That night, he pointed his nose to the cold stars and gave the long wolf-howl.
~ Jack London
Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.
~ Jack London
The blood-longing became stronger than ever before. He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.
~ Jack London
Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land.
~ Jack London
Le persone d'eccezionale valore sono simili alle grandi aquile solitarie che volano molto in alto nell'azzurro, al disopra della terra e della sua superficiale meschinità.
~ Jack London
nor did he dream that such persons were as lonely eagles sailing solitary in the azure sky far above the earth and its swarming freight of gregarious life.
~ Jack London
The master rode alone that day; and in the woods, side by side, White Fang ran with Collie, as his mother, Kiche, and old One Eye had run long years before in the silent Northland forest.
~ Jack London
Lonely he had lived, so far as his kind was concerned, and lonely he would continue to live.
~ Jack London
Solomon Island scourges, dysentery, had struck Berande plantation, and he was all alone to cope with it.  Also, he was afflicted himself. By stooping close, still on man-back, he managed to pass through the low doorway.  He took
~ Jack London
Though alone, he was not lost. 
~ Jack London
Burnunu yukar? dikip bütün dertlerini anlatt? soÄŸuk y?ld?zlara.
~ Jack London
Per cinque anni udì soltanto una parola gentile, ricevette una sola carezza, e non capì di che si trattava.
~ Jack London
Life is difficult enough without undue association with people.
~ Jack Ritchie
aloof from the society of ordinary mortals
~ Jack Vance
Poets in their chambers began to scribble notes.
~ Jacqueline Carey