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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
Virginia Woolf
Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
William Blackstone, Commentaries
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
Milan Kundera
Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
Emily Carr
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
William Cowper
Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.
Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny (1919
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.
John Keats
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo
Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
Albert Camus
Solitude begets whimsies.
Mary Wortley Montagu
The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.
Boufflers
she had no resources for solitude
Jane Austen
He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means.
Charles Dickens
It is not physical solitude that actually separates one from others; not physical isolation, but spiritual isolation. It is not the desert island nor the stony wilderness that cuts you from the people you love. It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. How often in a large city, shaking hands with my friends, I have felt the wilderness stretching between us. Both of us were wandering in arid wastes, having lost the springs that nourished us -- or having found them dry. Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from
. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
