1. “You are not alone. You are not separate from everything. You are not less than or more than. You are you.”
2. “Solitude helps you find peace. Peace helps you find happiness.”
3. “Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.”
4. “Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.”
5. “The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do on your own, and there’s no shame in enjoying the solitude.”
6. “Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.”
7. “Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.”
8. “Give solitude a chance. You’ve got nothing to lose. And your life to gain back.”
9. “Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.”
10. “In stillness lives wisdom . In quiet you’ll find peace . In solitude you’ll remember yourself.”
11. “Solitude is your most intimate companion, it’ll guide you back home. Stop running from yourself, be still.”
12. “I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
13. “Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
14. “The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude.”
15. “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
16. “In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”
17. “Solitude is the soul’s holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.”
18. “What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?”
19. “Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.”
20. “One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.”
21. “The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
22. “Every kind of creative work demands solitude, and being alone, constructively alone, is a prerequisite for every phase of the creative process.”
23. “Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.”
24. “Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.”
25. “Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”
26. “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”
27. “You need the rain to appreciate the sun, darkness to appreciate light, people to appreciate solitude.”
28. “There’s staggering power in leaving the world and heading out into some solitude for at least and hour every day.”
29. “In solitude, we discover that what we need most isn’t answers, but the ability to question and challenge our own assumptions.”
30. “The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
31. “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
32. “One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
33. “In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.”
34. “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
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35. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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36. “It is much better to walk alone, in the right direction, than to follow the herd, walking in the wrong direction.”
37. “The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.”
38. “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
39. “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
40. “When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death – ourselves.”
41. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
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42. “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
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43. “I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
44. “Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from which you issued.”
45. “By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.”
46. “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself”
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47. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”
48. “As long as there are enemies within the fortress, they will continue to sally forth; if they are destroyed as they emerge, the fortress will fall into our hands.”
49. “Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it”
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50. “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
51. “Loneliness is when you’re missing people, aloneness is when you’re enjoying yourself.”
52. “Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”
53. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself”
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54. “Silence is better than meaningless words. The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”
55. “In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.”
56. “Solitude, whether endured or embraced, is a necessary gateway to original thought.”
57. “I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
58. “My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.”
59. “Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.”
60. “True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.”
61. “Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
62. “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
63. “I thought loving solitude was bad until I discovered a whole new world in it.”
64. “A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.”
65. “I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
66. “The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn’t subdue you and make you feel abject. It’s stimulating loneliness.”
67. “My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
68. “Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.”
69. “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”
70. “Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.”
71. “Solitude isn’t loneliness. Solitude is when the entire serene universe seems to surround and hold you quietly.”
72. “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
73. “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
74. “ou have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
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75. “I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in maturity.”
76. “Solitude is the strength of being alone. It’s where we become our best company.”
77. “In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.”
78. “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
79. “Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk- essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.”
80. “If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.”
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81. “Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.”
82. “To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.”
83. “If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot.”
84. “A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.”
85. “I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.”
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