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Solitude  Quotes
La solitude à deux est l’enfer consenti.

—Michel Houellebecq

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AmourEnferSolitude
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If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

—Stewart L.

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PeaceSolitude
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A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as a society running along smoothly in its own rut. The individual is thrust...

—William Barrett

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It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

—Søren Kierkegaard

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IntroversionModernitySolitude
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I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower…I live still a collegiate student…and lead a monastic life, ipse...

—Robert Burton

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AloneHermitPeople
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The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

—Shan Sa

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BitternessMoonSolitude
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To resist the social pressure now put even on one’s leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one’s own way, than ever before.

—Robert Graves

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Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.

—Steven L.

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Black-HumorExistentialismHell
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The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the...

—Anthony Storr

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AttachmentPsychoanalysisSolitude
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People who find loneliness for the sheer absence of many friends often don’t realize the presence of God’s big gift in their lives for them being made unique as there are only fewer things in...

—Anuj Somany

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EmpowermentGiftLoneliness
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

—Aristotle

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EitherSolitude
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Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness...

—Hermann Hesse

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I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.

—Charlotte Eriksson

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Charlotte-ErikssonCityLit
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Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid...

—Eve Ensler

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AutonomyCarpe-DiemCherish
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I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men — although the sum...

—Girolamo Cardano

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CompanionshipFriendsSolitude
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Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.

—Daniel J.

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AloneCrazyHesse
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For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time when we study the faces of ‘old people’ and sense that one day...

—Irène Némirovsky

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ChildhoodHeleneKarol
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Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors – in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

—Donna Lynn

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We must not only observe but listen to the sound of nature.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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Environmental-ValuesInspirationalListening-Skills
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There is a charm in Solitude that cheersA feeling that the world knows nothing ofA green delight the wounded mind endearsAfter the hustling world is broken off

—John Clare

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Il était seul, et quand la solitude nous préoccupe, on devient capable de faire n’importe quelle bassesse pour s’assurer une compagnie, une oreille et des yeux attentifs. Je parle d’eux, les autres, pas de moi.

—Juan Carlos

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The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

—John Lubbock

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HavenHeavenHell
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Noli me tangere,noli me legere,noli me videre,noli me

—Mark Z.

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DistrustIsolationLatin
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The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the birds could share their food and gambled where any cutpurse could steal their winnings, they kissed...

—Salman Rushdie

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SelfhoodSocietySolitude
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We are familiar with people who seek out solitude: penitents, failures, saints, or prophets. They retreat to deserts, preferably, where they live on locusts and honey. Others, however, live in caves or cells on remote...

—Patrick Süskind

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I want my own will, and I wantsimply to be with my will,as it goes toward action.And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times,when something is coming near,I want to be with those who knowsecret...

—Rainer Maria

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PoetrySolitude
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Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my...

—Victoria Erickson

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BalanceBurstingCare
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Making good use of our limited time – the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each day – is the key to developing inner steadiness and calm.

—Pema Chödrön

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DeathDyingMeditation
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moonlight disappears down the hillsmountains vanish into fogand i vanish into poetry.

—Sanober Khan

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AloneFogHills
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All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

—Virginia Woolf

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InvisibilitySeclusionSilence
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He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.

—Peter Heller

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Solitude
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I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never...

—Albert Einstein

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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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FreedomSolitude
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Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.

—Amy Layne Litzelman

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DiscipleshipPrayerSolitude
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And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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BeliefCorrespondenceLetters
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He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent...

—Colm Tóibín

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SilenceSolitude
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I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail leading into the unknown to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the...

—Everett Ruess

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BeautyNatureSolitude
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Reading is solitude.

—Italo Calvino

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ReadingSolitude
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I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are silent phantoms. Within my inner self I find the silence I am seeking. But it leaves me so bereft...

—Clarice Lispector

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SilenceSolitude
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Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of...

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Gabriel-Garcia-MarquezSolitude
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What an ambiance, and such a pity I’m alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of rain on the windowpane – a massage for the mind. And a comforting...

—Donna Lynn

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AmbianceRainSolitude
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Renew energy, revive strength.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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ChristianChristian-LivingEnergize
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Nothing has the power to remind you how alone you are like walking through a conglomeration of empty skyscrapers.

—Matthew Tysz

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ApocalypseLonelinessSolitude
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Solace of Silencesurreal synapsesof a melancholy dronea dream per chanceshe dared not be alone…

—Muse

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DreamDreamsGrief
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

—Nadine Gordimer

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Nadine-GordimerSolitudeWriting
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In solitude, where we are least alone.

—Lord Byron

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British PoetSolitude
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

—Paul Valéry

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Adam-And-EveAlonenessGod
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He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn’t really want to become...

—Stefan Zweig

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CompanyPersonalitySolitude
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But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

—Rainer Maria

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