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title: "29 Silence Solitude Quotes by 28 authors"
description: "Browse 29 Silence Solitude quotes by 28 authors. Discover the best Silence Solitude sayings and thoughts."
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> [I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zane-grey/i-can-write-best-in-the-silence-and-solitude-of-the-night-when/)

[Zane Grey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zane-grey/)

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> [Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-de-angelis/silence-and-solitude-are-confrontational-they-plunge-us-instantly/)

[Barbara De Angelis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-de-angelis/)

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> [Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilu-henner/silence-and-solitude-are-more-distracting-to-me-than-chatter-and/)

[Marilu Henner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilu-henner/)

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> [Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/silence-and-solitude-the-soul-s-best-friends/)

[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/)

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> [The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-phillips/the-heart-beats-louder-and-the-soul-hears-quicker-in-silence-and/)

[Wendell Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-phillips/)

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> [“It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sanhita-baruah/it-was-either-the-chaos-of-a-crowd-of-thoughts-or-the-silence-of/)

[Sanhita Baruah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sanhita-baruah/)

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> [You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grenville-kleiser/you-grow-your-best-thoughts-in-silence-solitude-and-meditation-when/)

[Grenville Kleiser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grenville-kleiser/)

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> [The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/the-ancient-spiritual-tradition-is-that-god-gives-himself-fully-to-us/)

[Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/)

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> [“I don’t like to write letters while I am traveling, because for letter writing I need more than the most necessary tools:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/i-don-t-like-to-write-letters-while-i-am-traveling-because-for-letter/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

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> [It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/it-is-really-a-matter-of-ending-this-silence-and-solitude-of/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

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> [Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paramahansa-yogananda/come-into-the-silence-of-solitude-and-the-vibration-there-will-talk/)

[Paramahansa Yogananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paramahansa-yogananda/)

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> [Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/not-all-of-us-are-called-to-be-hermits-but-all-of-us-need-enough/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-dekker/a-person-who-finds-silence-and-solitude-boring-is-a-person-who-is/)

[Ted Dekker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-dekker/)

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> [“Silence and solitude are universally recognized spiritual practices, and there are good reasons for this. Learning how to discipline your speech is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/silence-and-solitude-are-universally-recognized-spiritual-practices/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-ideal-person-is-he-who-in-the-midst-of-the-greatest-silence-and/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [“I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake up in the middle of the night and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-ageyev/i-was-terrified-as-only-grown-men-and-women-can-be-when-they-wake-up/)

[M. Ageyev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-ageyev/)

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> [Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-nouwen/silence-is-a-very-concrete-practical-and-useful-discipline-in-all-our/)

[Henri Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-nouwen/)

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> [Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/concerning-the-factors-of-silence-solitude-and-darkness-we-can-only/)

[Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/)

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> [“The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-ideal-man-is-he-who-in-the-midst-of-the-greatest-silence-and/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/freedom-is-the-possibility-of-isolation-you-are-free-if-you-can-2/)

[Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/)

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> [“They ask only one question: "what is pleasing to the Spirit of God?" And as soon as they have heard the sound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-j-m-nouwen/they-ask-only-one-question-what-is-pleasing-to-the-spirit-of-god-and/)

[Henri J.M. Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-j-m-nouwen/)

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> [“Few of us can fully appreciate the terrible con­spiracy of noise there is about us, noise that denies us the silence and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-macdonald/few-of-us-can-fully-appreciate-the-terrible-con-spiracy-of-noise/)

[Gordon MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-macdonald/)

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> [There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-j-foster/there-is-an-old-proverb-to-the-effect-that-all-those-who-open-their/)

[Richard J. Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-j-foster/)

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> [Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-larkin/seriously-i-think-it-is-a-grave-fault-in-life-that-so-much-time-is/)

[Philip Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-larkin/)

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> [“I can't be on too long before I have to stop. If she hadn't left, you'd both be home right now.” Victoria’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moriah-jovan/i-can-t-be-on-too-long-before-i-have-to-stop-if-she-hadn-t-left-you-d/)

[Moriah Jovan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moriah-jovan/)

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> [“This is the weird aftermath, when it is not exactly over, and yet you have given it up. You go back and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/this-is-the-weird-aftermath-when-it-is-not-exactly-over-and-yet-you/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

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> [I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-clarke/i-have-a-scholar-s-love-of-silence-and-solitude-to-sit-and-pass-hour/)

[Susanna Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-clarke/)

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> [Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-solnit/solitude-in-the-city-is-about-the-lack-of-other-people-or-rather/)

[Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-solnit/)

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> [When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-o-donohue/when-you-cease-to-fear-your-solitude-a-new-creativity-awakens-in-you/)

[John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-o-donohue/)

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                        "text": "Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. I can't see how to avoid it, without being very rich or very unpopular, & it does worry me, for time is slipping by , and nothing is done. It isn't as if anything was gained by this social frivolity, It isn't: it's just a waste.",
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                        "text": "“I can't be on too long before I have to stop. If she hadn't left, you'd both be home right now.” Victoria’s brow wrinkled. “I don’t understand.” “You take energy from people, from crowds, and you expend more. For you, when you’re on, you run like a German engine, no?” “Right.” “When you go home after the party’s over and you haven’t had enough attention, you miss it. You crave more.” “Right.” “I don’t take in energy like that. People take energy from me. I can be social, I can be on, but I go home for silence and solitude, not because it’s time for the party to end. I don’t want to hear another person’s voice for three days so I can recharge. Like a battery.”",
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                        "text": "“This is the weird aftermath, when it is not exactly over, and yet you have given it up. You go back and forth in your head, often, about giving it up. It’s hard to understand, when you are sitting there in your chair, having breakfast or whatever, that giving it up is stronger than holding on, that “letting yourself go” could mean you have succeeded rather than failed. You eat your goddamn Cheerios and bicker with the bitch in your head that keeps telling you you’re fat and weak: Shut up, you say, I’m busy, leave me alone. When she leaves you alone, there’s a silence and a solitude that will take some getting used to. You will miss her sometimes...There is, in the end, the letting go.”",
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