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Solitude Quotes (page 15)

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism. Aldous Huxley
This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. Elizabeth Gilbert
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on. Julia Cameron
Mark Rothko quote: "It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of..."
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again. Mark Rothko
Virginia Woolf quote: "I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and..."
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions. Virginia Woolf
Curtis Mayfield quote: "Could live with you in solitude and need no one else. Give me..."
Could live with you in solitude and need no one else. Give me your love. Curtis Mayfield
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation. Helen Keller
Paulo Coelho quote: "That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing,..."
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. Paulo Coelho
Oscar Wilde quote: "A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without..."
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. Oscar Wilde
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. Soren Kierkegaard
Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it's the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude is a time for stripping away everything in order to focus on God. (Matt 6:6) Sue Monk Kidd
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being. Herman Hesse
Henri Nouwen quote: "In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us."
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us. Henri Nouwen
To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond —. To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con, at will; to condescend to them, for a few hours; to seat oneself on them as on a horse, often as on an ass — for one must know how to make use of their stupidity as much as of their fire. To reserve one's three hundred foregrounds; also the dark glasses; for there are cases when nobody may look into our eyes, still less into our "grounds." And to choose for company that... Friedrich Nietzsche

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