Quotes and Sayings About Solitude
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
-- A. R. Rahman -
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
-- Abraham Cowley -
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
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A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
-- Alan ParkerSource : "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.
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She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
-- Albert Camus -
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
-- Albert Camus -
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Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal†some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
-- Albert Camus -
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
-- Albert Camus -
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.
-- Albert Camus -
There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
-- Albert Camus -
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
There are degrees and kinds of solitude. ... I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
-- Aldo Leopold -
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
-- Alfred Polgar -
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
-- Alfred Russel WallaceSource : Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso
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He who understands humanity seeks solitude
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
Solitude is separate experience.
-- Alice MeynellSource : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.219, eBookIt.com
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I prefer to be left alone with my books.
-- Alison WeirSource : Alison Weir (2006). “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”, Random House LLC
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.
-- Allen Rosenberg -
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...
-- Amelia Barr -
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.
-- Anais Nin