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May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.
Source Unknown
This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
Jean de la Bruyere
Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.
Luis Fortuno
He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude
Aristotle
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
Hubert Humphrey
It would be worth the while to look closely into the eye which has been open and seeing at such hours, and in such solitudes, its dull, yellowish, greenish eye. Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.
Henry David Thoreau
Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation.
Isaac Newton
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
Virginia Woolf
To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
Hamilton Mabie
Tea should be taken in solitude.
C.S. Lewis
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
Jackson Browne
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
Thomas De Quincey
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Jodi Picoult
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.
William Wordsworth
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.
I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened 'Briars;' go out upon that, build yourself a hut, and there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. I see no alternative, no other hope for you.
William Ellery Channing, Letter
The strong man is strongest when alone.
Friedrich von Schiller
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon
