Solitude Quotes
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I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
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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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Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
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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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When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.
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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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Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
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Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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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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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night the monitory blast Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes, Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
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Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.
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Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.
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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.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
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Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so?
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Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
