Quotes about Solitude

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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as muc — Jonathan Safran Foer
Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. — Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses m — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity — Criss Jami, Killosophy
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion — it is easy in solitude to live after our own
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of le — Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon a — Jiddu Krishnamurti
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His — Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason
Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thou — Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while o — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes — Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth — Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side. — Criss Jami, Healology
The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel — Dalit Orbach, בדידותו של קורא המחשבות
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. — Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly — Paul Valéry