William Shakespeare Quotes

I had as lief have been myself alone.

William Shakespeare

• Solitude

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• Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

  

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• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

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• Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

  

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• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  

  Carla Bruni
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• Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

  

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• There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
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• Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.

  

  Andrew Marvell
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• Listen as the wind blows from across the great divide,Voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time.The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.Would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?And I would be the oneTo hold you down,Kiss you so hardI'll take your breath away.And after, I'd wipe away the tears,Just close your eyes dear.

  

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• The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
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• It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
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• Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

  

  Anna Neagle
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• God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

  

  Paul Valery
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• Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

  

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• My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.

  

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• I don't take anything for granted.

  

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• I had as lief have been myself alone.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Solitude