Quotes on solitude
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
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Eric Hoffer Quotes
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves?
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Morris Adler Quotes
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
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Laurence Sterne Quotes
What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up.
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Pearl S. Buck Quotes
In solitude, where we are least alone.
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George Gordon Quotes
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.
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Marya Mannes Quotes
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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Paul Johannes Tillich Quotes
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
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Eda LeShan Quotes
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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William Penn Quotes
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.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
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John Muir Quotes
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
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Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.
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K.T. Jong Quotes
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.
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Helen Hayes Quotes
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
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Paul Tillich Quotes
I owe my solitude to other people.
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Alan Watts Quotes
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes