Solitude Quotes
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After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.
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Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
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The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.
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Solitude is the place of purification.
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I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
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With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
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When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
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A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
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There are degrees and kinds of solitude. … I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
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I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
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One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.
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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
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What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.
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Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
