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The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.
Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.
If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.
Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
I love all waste and solitary places.
We never touch but at points.
Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.
The strong man is strongest when alone.
Solitude is sometimes best society.
Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Moments of solitude are the holiest moments to think wisely!
I myself am best When least in company.
Extraordinary things happen in solitude.
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.
Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
solitude is not absence of love, but its complement
Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.