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Solitude
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Peace in Being Alone.
Solitude is the state of being alone, embracing a chosen separation from the company of others to connect more deeply with oneself. It is a space for introspection, creativity, and self-discovery, offering a powerful counterbalance to the constant demands of social interaction and fostering a profound sense of inner peace and understanding essential for navigating the complexities of life.
# Solitude & Themes
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Context: • Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
“Alone, adj. In bad company.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 113
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
“Among them, but not of them.”
— Unknown
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“I am alone, I am not lonely.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1836)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (E)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (E)
“We never touch but at points.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Simone de Beauvoir, (1948), The Ethics of Ambiguity page: 62, publisher: Philosophical Library, ISBN: 978-0-8065-0160-4
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (D)
“No man can save himself alone.”
— Unknown
More Quotes
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Context: • Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
“Alone, adj. In bad company.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 113
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
“Among them, but not of them.”
— Unknown
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“I am alone, I am not lonely.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1836)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (E)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (E)
“We never touch but at points.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Simone de Beauvoir, (1948), The Ethics of Ambiguity page: 62, publisher: Philosophical Library, ISBN: 978-0-8065-0160-4
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (D)
“No man can save himself alone.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Alice Meynell, The Spirit of Place and Other Essays (London: John Lane, 1899), p. 17
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (M)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (M)
“Solitude is separate existence.”
— Unknown
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Context: • No one is alone. No one.
• The selected poems of Rosario Castellanos (1989)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (C)
• The selected poems of Rosario Castellanos (1989)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (C)
“Nadie está solo. Nadie.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Oliver Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison (1776)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
“Nobody with me at sea but myself.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, The Lady of La Garaye, Part II, line 381
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
“Until I truly loved, I was alone.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings (1st century B.C.), tr. Darius Lyman (1856), #222
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (S)
“Solitude is the mother of anxieties.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 90
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
“In solitude, when we are least alone.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Laurence Sterne, Letters. No. 82
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
“Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Martin Buber, I and Thou (1923), trans. Ronald Gregor Smith. London: Bloomsbury, 2013, p. 72
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
“Solitude is the place of purification.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (V)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (V)
“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Samuel Rogers, Human Life, line 759
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
“Then never less alone than when alone.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Isaac D'Israeli, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), Chapter X
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
“There is a society in the deepest solitude.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Volume I, p. 117
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
“I was never less alone than when by myself.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II (1812), Stanza 26
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (B)
“This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!”
— Unknown
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Context: • James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Sea Studies
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
“We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 19
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Solitude" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729-31.)
“Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.”
— Unknown
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