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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.
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Author: Colette
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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.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
Author: George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.
Author: George Herbert
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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.
Author: Helen Hayes
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I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least – and it is commonly more than that – sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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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.
Author: Henry David Thoreau, 1854
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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.
Author: Henry David Thoreau, ‘Solitude,’ Walden, 1854
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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.
Author: Jack Kerouac
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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.
Author: K.T. Jong
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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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.
Author: Marya Mannes
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Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known… then went crazy as a loon.
Author: Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Lisa Simpson
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We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves?
Author: Morris Adler
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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.
Author: Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now
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Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
Author: Paul Tillich
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up.
Author: Pearl Buck
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In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.
Author: Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.
Author: Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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