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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone. — Jonathan Swift
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold… — Albert Camus
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being… — Parker J. Palmer
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 vivifies, isolation kills. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Solitude is the mother of anxieties. — Publilius Syrus
In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone — Lily Tomlin
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how… — Roger Ascham
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.-… — Erica Jong
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think. — Henry David Thoreau
There is a society in the deepest solitude. — Isaac D'Israeli
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. — Thomas Gray
We walk alone in the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Solitude is un-American. — Erica Jong
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings — John Keats
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and… — John Milton
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something… — Emile M. Cioran
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone. — George Herbert
Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity. — Ovid
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. — Edward Hoagland
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps)… — Simone Weil
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent… — Theophile Gautier
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. — Riccardo Muti

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