{"id":4471,"date":"2016-02-15T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2017-04-27T07:56:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:56:42","slug":"solitude-quotes-from-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/solitude-quotes-from-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Solitude Quotes from Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4473\" style=\"margin-right: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Solitude.jpg\" alt=\"Solitude Quotes\" width=\"214\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Solitude.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Solitude-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Solitude-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Jane%20Eyre\">Jane Eyre<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Charlotte%20Bronte\">Charlotte Bronte<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>She discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Anne%20of%20the%20Island\">Anne of the Island<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Lucy%20Maud%20Montgomery\">Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20House%20of%20Mirth\">The House of Mirth<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Edith%20Wharton\">Edith Wharton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Agnes%20Grey\">Agnes Grey<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Anne%20Bronte\">Anne Bronte<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others&#8211;poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner&#8211;young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Great%20Gatsby\">The Great Gatsby<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=F.%20Scott%20Fitzgerald\">F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Solitude\">More Quotes about Solitude from Literature<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company. ~ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton&#8230;See more quotes about solitude&#8230;<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[939,297,487,133,354,321,134,419,547,562,936],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-topics","tag-agnes-grey","tag-anne-bronte","tag-anne-of-the-island","tag-charlotte-bronte","tag-edith-wharton","tag-f-scott-fitzgerald","tag-jane-eyre","tag-lucy-maud-montgomery","tag-the-great-gatsby","tag-the-house-of-mirth","tag-topic1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}