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Quotes About Solitariness

I believe that love remains so strong and powerful in your memory because it was your first deep experience of solitariness and the first inner work that you undertook on your life.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Life moves on but i want to live alone.
~ Daniel Martin
All that could happen was alone with me and I was alone with it.
~ William H. Gass
In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
~ Aldous Huxley
People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.
~ Mort Sahl
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
~ Lorraine Hansberry
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.
~ Aristotle
I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.
~ Nelson Mandela
He was born to be lonely, that's what he knew for certain.
~ Gillian Flynn
there was something wistful about her, under the burnish of her makeup she looked extremely young, and a little afraid. I wanted to speak to her, as if I were a guardian spirit working the airport—God knows I was crazed with my fresh solitariness— so I did a little double take, when I passed her, and said, Could I ask, where did you get your sandals—my husband, I lied, wants me to get some, and she said a name, as if relieved to speak.
~ Sharon Olds
A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I'm such a solitary person that working on my own is perfect for me.
~ Jane Fallon
I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.
~ Raymond Kethledge
I've always been somewhat of a loner. I seem to take more alone time that the average person.
~ Dean Potter
She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.
~ Joyce Rachelle
In solitude, when we are least alone.
~ Lord Byron
We are so ignorant of our true condition that we know little more of ourselves than our name and address and how much we have; of our selfishness, our envy, our detraction, our sin, we know absolutely nothing. In fact, in order that we may never know ourselves, we hate silence and solitariness.
~ Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Being alone means there is no one else in this world
~ Miyavi
Well, I don't see any other ones around...
~ Helen DeWitt
When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
~ Louis L'Amour
There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.
~ John Updike
Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness
~ Robert Burton