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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

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Walter Savage Landor

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

Anna Neagle

From the solitude of the wood, Man has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Loren Eiseley

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

John Updike

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your 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

Solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom.

Colette

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

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.

Simone Weil

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

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

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Honore de Balzac

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is

William Jay

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude

Joseph Addison

Solitude is the place of purification.

Martin Buber

Solitude is bearable only with God

Andre Gide

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

James Russell Lowell

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

John Stuart Blackie

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to.

Isaac D\'Israeli

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