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• I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

  Khalil Gibran

  Believe, Tired, Humility

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• It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Lonely, Mind, Needs

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ”, p.62, Harper Collins

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• I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

  Dani Shapiro

  Thinking, Community, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Should Have

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Tears, Agitation

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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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• Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Men, Sick

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• Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.

  Gerald Nicosia

  Mom, Hero, Book

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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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• I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pride, Darkness, Rooms

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 17, 1975.

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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 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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• As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

  Sally Brampton

  People, Silence, House

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• Remember what peace there may be in silence.

  Max Ehrmann

  Silence, May, Remember

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Trying, Needs

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Most religions have always appreciated the extreme power of concentrated thought directed toward the benefit of others, especially when that person is practicing in solitude. That's why they have contemplative orders.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Order, Benefits, Appreciated

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark of your own streams and oceans; [to] explore your own higher latitudes; [to] be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Parks, Columbus

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• The thought of attention made me want to hide in a closet. I wasn't a kid who liked attention. I liked solitude and I still kind of do.

  Daria Werbowy

  Kids, Attention, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

  Taylor Momsen

  Writing, Isolation

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Phones, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to such an extent that while you're creating, you feel very self-sufficient. I've certainly experienced that.

  Joyce Johnson

  Art, Thinking, Discipline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like I veer more away from technology than toward it. I'm a little scared of the direction we're going, to be honest. It feels like a sci-fi novel from the '50s, the way we can control everything and the solitude we each have in our own little bubbles, and yet we feel like we have social interactions. We're moving in a weird direction, at least.

  Martin Starr

  Moving, Technology, Scared

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.

  Richard Ford

  Tolerance, Abandon

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

  Brit Marling

  Lonely, Novelists, Endeavor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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