Quotes about solitude
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... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. Rainer Maria Rilke
solitude trying cost
it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.
solitude ends needed
What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.
solitude able hours
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.
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I implore those who love me to love my solitude.
solitude solitary ifs
Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.
solitude wedding-day good-marriage
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.
solitude strange introvert
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it. Liv Tyler
solitude made capacity
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves. Michel de Montaigne
solitude boring wells
If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well. Mark Twain
solitude poverty virtue
The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude. Mencius
solitude feelings guilt
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt. Melody Beattie
solitude be-good company
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
solitude sometimes
Solitude is sometimes the best society. John Milton
solitude together may
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. Neil Gaiman
solitude hours duty
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself. Margaret Fuller
solitude done suspects
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects Pablo Picasso
solitude telephones all-alone
All alone by the telephone. Irving Berlin
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Solitude is considered un-American. Erica Jong
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Solitude is un-American.
solitude quiet quiet-life
I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life. Eric Clapton
solitude break humans
In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings. Friedrich Nietzsche
solitude vastness void
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth. Helene Cixous
solitude quality ifs
If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
solitude independence longing
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. Hermann Hesse
solitude usefulness
In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness. Henri Nouwen
solitude transformation furnaces
Solitude is the furnace of transformation.
solitude aliens realizing
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
solitude mind secrecy
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! Matthew Arnold
solitude world cures
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? Meg Rosoff
solitude secret degrees
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace. Maria Montessori
solitude insurmountable
There is no insurmountable solitude. Pablo Neruda
solitude nostalgia hours
Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.