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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.
Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.
Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.
I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.
I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.
Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.
Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.
Lisa: 'Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?' Homer: 'Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.'
I think Id like to be able to heal peoples pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.
If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.
As public as I seem with all my charity parties and entertaining, I actually spend a lot time in solitude and need it!
I still find it difficult to cope with the solitude of writing. I often crave the feedback of working with a team.
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.
People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.
Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.
Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.
I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
I relieved my loneliness with movies and books, and I had a strong desire to express what I felt through acting.
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here.
Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.
Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.
What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
