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Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.
Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.
One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.
A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.
I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?
I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
I grew up in Michigan. I feel like a lot of my childhood was in solitude, in the woods or making tree forts.
There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.
The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.