Solitude Quotes
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Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
Georges Bataille
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Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude—because we are always 'doing' things—we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude.
Michael Gurian
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The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.
Elena Ferrante
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Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.
Laurie Helgoe
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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
Francis Bacon
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Trucking-company terminals are places where paperwork gets filled out, driving orders are given, and partners are assigned. They can often be social hubs for drivers, breaking up the monotony and solitude they face on the road.
Mary Pilon
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Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice
Is that thou utterest while all else is still--
The ancient voice that, centuries ago,
Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet
A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream!
William Cullen Bryant
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I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.
Charles Dickens
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There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.
George Bird Grinnell
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen
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Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.
Donald Hall
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Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of solitude. No flashbacks and no backstory. Let's have no more back story!
Colm Toibin
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I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
Will Self
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For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.
Bob Marshall
