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The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a… — Peter Hessler
It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a life of solitude… — Lady Gaga
I know I have within myself... a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people who just meet me can't… — Gerard Butler
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting… — Henry Rollins
Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness — Maggie Smith
I love the tempestuousness of oceans and the calmness and solitude of lakes. Also, sensuality that drips and runs down the spine. And I'm not… — David Boreanaz
I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of… — Celine Dion
The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid. — Brad Mehldau
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to… — Harold Bloom
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God. — Aristotle
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a… — Emile M. Cioran
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return… — Joan Halifax
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer. — Will Self
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude… — Constantin Stanislavski
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London.… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something… — Gilles Deleuze
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall. — Judith Jamison
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. — Robinson Jeffers
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared.… — Tariq Ramadan
Solitude is a catalyst for innovation — Mahatma Gandhi
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… — Philip Larkin
The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice… — Emile M. Cioran
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. — Emile M. Cioran

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