Solitude Quotes
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It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.
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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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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and 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.
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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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Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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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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Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so?
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Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
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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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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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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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All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
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Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects.
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I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.
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But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
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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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Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
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Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
