Loneliness And Solitude Quotes - Page 5

• Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

  Maggie Smith

  Loneliness, Differences, Solitude

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• The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

  Brad Mehldau

  Loneliness, Kids, Reflection

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• It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

  Bruce Barton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Friendship, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

  George Herbert

  Mean, Solitude, Use

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• Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Loneliness, Solitude, Different

  "Balanced Life — 6 Tips for Battling Loneliness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

  Robert Browning

  Music, Solitude, Inspirational Music

  Robert Browning, William Lyon Phelps (1910). “Robert Browning's complete works”

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• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Broken Heart, Lonely

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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• Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lonely, Memories, Loneliness

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

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• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

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• How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sweet, Solitude, Passing

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• The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Strong, Loneliness, Believe

  Suzanne Gordon (1976). “Lonely in America”, Touchstone

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