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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.
Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people.
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.
Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.
We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.
Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.
Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.
If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously stunted.
It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.
Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.
I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.
Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.
I am always able to find that solitude. I am always able to find that peace. Which is tight. That is what has helped me keep going.