Solitude Quotes - Page 21

• Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

  Honore de Balzac

  Labor

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• Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Heart, Quiet

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• A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

  Sven Birkerts

  Crush, Book, Self

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.189, Macmillan

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• Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Men, Thinking

  "People of the book" by Richard Harries, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2007.

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• I had as lief have been myself alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Has Beens

  Samuel Ayscough, William Shakespeare (1827). “An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare”

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• I love my solitude, and I would love it still more if I had more of it.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Stills, Ifs

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• A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Devil

  Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: to which is Added Hydriotaphia, Or Urn-burial: A Discourse on Sepulchral Urns”, p.137

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• Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Habit, Excellent, Manners

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.139, Island Press

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• I myself am best
  When least in company.

  William Shakespeare

  Company

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: Twelfth-night; or, What you will. The merry wives of Windsor. The taming of the shrew. The comedy of errors”, p.11

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• Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

  Jack McDevitt

  Ideas, People, Share

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• Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.

  Robert Lucas, Jr.

  Quality, Essentials, Wilderness

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• In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

  Dallas Willard

  Distance, Light, Psychics

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• Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Sea, Talent

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1850). “Dramatic works: Comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont. Transl. by Anna Swanwick. And Goetz v. Berlichingen. Transl. by Sir Walter Scott. Carefully rev”, p.227

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• One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.

  Frank Church

  Beer, Thinking, America

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• Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

  William Cowper

  Lying, Sick, Quality

  William Cowper (1857). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.124

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• Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

  John Ortberg

  Perseverance, Mold, Gains

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• Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

  Brendan Dooling

  Isolation, Humbling, Vulnerability

  "Brendan Dooling is passionate about everything he works on". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi." What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.

  Dani Shapiro

  New York, Thinking, Phones

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

  Hannah Nordhaus

  Motherhood, Past, Youth

  Hannah Nordhaus (2015). “American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

  Anthony the Great

  Heart, Fighting, Sight

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• I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.

  Bradford Cox

  Strong, Sometimes, Persons

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.

  Dakota Johnson

  Sleep, Next

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Solitude is sometimes the best society.

  John Milton

  Sometimes

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• That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people, as well. We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player, constantly, to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by the idea of solitude. I'm excited about that.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Player, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

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• To seek solitude like a wild animal.  That is my only ambition.

  Dalai Lama

  Ambition, Animal, Wild Animal

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