I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Helen Keller
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
I owe my solitude to other people. Alan Watts
I owe my solitude to other people.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. Honore De Balzac
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. Jorge Luis Borges
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Solitude is the place of purification. Martin Buber
Solitude is the place of purification.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. Rainer Maria Rilke
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. Gertrude Stein
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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. Sidonie Gabrielle
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.
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. Edward Hoagland
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness. Seneca
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Sir Francis Bacon
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' C. S. Lewis
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think. Henry David Thoreau
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. Joseph Conrad
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude. Austin O'Malley
You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. Thomas Browne, Sr.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. Harold Bloom
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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