Han Suyin Quotes
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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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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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude;Death joins us to the great majority.
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Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
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A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
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No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
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Everything which is human is alien to me.
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And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
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I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
