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Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead. — Katrina Kenison
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and… — Henri Nouwen
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister. — Thomas Merton
In Silence there is eloquence. — Rumi
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. — Han Suyin
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all… — Seneca the Younger
Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark. — Elbert Hubbard
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God. — Walter Savage Landor
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. — George Herbert
Solitude begets whimsies. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad. — Samuel Johnson
Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another. — May Sarton
Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company. — Elizabeth Bowen
In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many. — Friedrich Nietzsche
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet. — William Cowper
If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die. — Lord Byron
Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment. — Richard J. Foster
It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. — Henry David Thoreau
I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could… — Henry David Thoreau
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening,… — Henry David Thoreau
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to… — Henry David Thoreau
I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude. — Henry David Thoreau
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. — Charles Baudelaire
A warrior balances solitude and dependence. — Paulo Coelho
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions… — Charles Darwin

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