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Solitude Quotes

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Freedom Solitude Wine You Wall Head

I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

Life Solitude My Life Try More Rare

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Beauty Solitude Strange Own Very

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

Solitude You Living Companion Thing

Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

Child People Me Solitude Growing Up

It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

Loneliness Experience People Solitude

My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.

Wladyslaw Reymont

Father Mother Man Brother Solitude

How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!

Man Solitude Society Different How

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

God Alone Man Solitude Feel Finding

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Walls Creative Solitude Spark Lost

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

Work Memory Solitude Friends You Go

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

James Russell Lowell

Character Imagination Solitude

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Community Alone Time Solitude Busy

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

Fun Solitude Writing Lonely Over

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

Life Solitude Idea Everybody Guess

I owe my solitude to other people.

People Solitude Owe Other

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Communication Light Solitude Dinner

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Solitude Worst Real Friendships

I cherish my time off and the solitude that comes along with it.

Time Solitude Cherish Along Off

Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

Love People Solitude Long Bus Sense

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

Alone Great Man Solitude World High

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

Love Space People Mind Solitude

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Solitude Evil Society Better Than

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

Nature Soul Solitude Talk Ourselves

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