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Quotes about solitude
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. (Lord Byron )
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. (Lord Byron )
To live alone is the fate of all great souls. (Lord Byron )
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. (Lord Byron )
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. (Lord Byron )
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. (Lord Byron )
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. (Lord Byron )
A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes. (Lord Byron )
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. (Lord Byron )
The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold. (Lord Byron )
The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. (Lord Byron )
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. (Lord Byron )
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. (Lord Byron )
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. (Lord Byron )
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. (Lord Byron )
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. (Lord Byron )
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again. (Lord Byron )
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. (Lord Byron )
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. (Lord Byron )
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore. (Lord Byron )
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. (Lord Byron )
The best thinking has been done in solitude. (Lord Byron )
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. (Lord Byron )
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. (Lord Byron )
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal. (Lord Byron )
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