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Solitude Quotes

You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.

Jane Hirshfield

Solitude World Story You Image

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

Life Solitude Weakness Universe You

I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.

Nature Man Solitude Universe Lonely

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Charles de Gaulle

Friend History Men Solitude You Now

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Life Work Nature Myself Me Solitude

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

Raymond Kethledge

Solitude Judge Person Use Lot

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Humor Solitude Way Gentle Wit Jokes

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Life Great Death Solitude Desert Us

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Hope Solitude Bitter Us No Hope

I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

Good Myself People Solitude Think

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

Loneliness Solitude Difference

I like peace and solitude and silence.

Peace Silence Solitude Like

I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

Love Time Solitude Writing Deep You

I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.

Family People Solitude Privacy More

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.

Anjelica Huston

Love Time Solitude Book Powerful

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

Solitude Thinking Superman His Too

For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.

Dog Me Solitude Writing Husband

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Robinson Jeffers

Imagination Mind Solitude Traitor

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Miguel de Unamuno

Solitude Finding Find Only Brothers

I think I definitely like the solitude of golf.

Solitude Think Golf Like I Think

I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.

Time Culture School Solitude Loved

What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.

People Solitude Group Two People Two

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Anthony Hopkins

Personality I Am People Solitude Own

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

William Wordsworth

Business Tired Solitude World Sick

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