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I implore those who love me to love my solitude. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of… — Heinrich Heine
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude. — William James
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone. — Elie Wiesel
As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I… — Chris Ware
He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people. — Paulo Coelho
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends;… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate,… — Hugh B. Brown
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward,… — Jonathan Franzen
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product. — Twyla Tharp
Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six… — Michel Houellebecq
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude.… — Bill Viola
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C.S. Lewis
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and… — Sigurd F. Olson
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the… — Khalil Gibran
St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a… — Charles Cumming
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The… — Thomas McGuane
The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence. — Ken Blanchard
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… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is… — Steve Schmidt
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness… — Helene Cixous
Find a day for yourself-better yet, late at night. Go to the forest or to the field, or lock yourself in a room ... You… — Nachman of Breslov
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. — John Stuart Blackie
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom. — Laurence Sterne

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