Solitude Quotes
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
Oswald Chambers -
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.
Freema Agyeman -
It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.
Maggie Nelson -
Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.
Andrew Marvell -
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich -
The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped.
Jane Gardam -
I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.
Anthony Hopkins -
It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.
Austin Phelps -
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.
Wallace Stevens -
Solitude begets whimsies.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.
Florida Scott-Maxwell -
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
Jonathan Sacks -
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus -
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
Jack Kerouac -
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
Albert Camus
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I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.
Mark Lazarevich Levi -
I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.
Gabrielle Union -
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon -
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Abu Bakr