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 owe my solitude to other people.
Alan Watts
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.
Peter Hoeg
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Honore De Balzac
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
In solitude, where we are least alone.
Lord Byron
Solitude is the place of purification.
Martin Buber
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
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
Alfred Polgar
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
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
The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.
John Lubbock
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
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
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
Edward Hoagland
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
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Sir Francis Bacon
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
C. S. Lewis
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley
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
You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
Austin O'Malley
In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
William Mathews
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne, Sr.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
Aphra Behn
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
Joseph Addison
The people who come here love the solitude of it. It's just beautiful, and they take good care of it.
Alfred Cooper
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Paul Brunton
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Salman Rushdie
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph Addison
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
Henry Home
He was a hermit with a family. I have a bit of that in me. My sister and brother, too. We're not lonely. You don't long for people's company, you long for solitude.
Cris Williamson
I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
Iris Chang
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.
Paul Tillich
It feels great knowing that we are here and that people rely on us. We are glad to have had the opportunity to be here, and we are glad that listeners have a place to come to for solitude.
Scott Stevens
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Allen Ginsberg
...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
Catie Curtis
Solitude: sweet absence of faces.
Milan Kundera
You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by.
Doug Adams
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery
The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
Marya Mannes
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
Martha Beck
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
William Powell
God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.BENEDICT XVI, ANGELUS, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Sunday, 22 May 2005.
Pope Benedict Xvi
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton
Characters are pictured very simply in Moebius' drawings, yet they have a sort of atmosphere around them. And the characters themselves exhale all kinds of things, notably solitude and a great nobleness. For me, it is the greatest quality of Moebius' drawings.
Hayao Miyazaki
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Jodie Foster
I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
Brenda Ueland
The press is coming up against something that is very fragile, and that is personal and individual solitude and dignity.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
I have fished here fairly regularly for the past five years or so. It's so close that it makes for a wonderful afternoon escape. It affords you some solitude -- a place to get away and have a quality fishing experience.
Brooks Gallagher
Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd.
Louis Aragon
We have to pick ourselves up again and try our best to come away from Solitude with something.
Marty Quinn
Life of solitude, guilt, anger and remorse.
Chris Hedges
Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
Leo Szilard
If you want to come and you want to come for the solitude, you'll find it. That's why a lot of people come here in the fall.
Melissa Wilson
She was past weeping, wrapped in the ineffable solitude of grief.
Lady Mabell Airlie
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
Mark Burnett
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
Eugenio Montale
Drilling multiple oil and gas (wells) would not only wreck the solitude of these remote areas, but would leave man-made scars on the landscape for centuries.
Erik Molvar
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