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Solitude Quotes
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more! (Quote by - William Cowper)
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin)
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. (Quote by - Pearl Buck)
I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper (Quote by - William Cowper)
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. (Quote by - Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now)
In solitude, when we are least alone. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
There is a society in the deepest solitude. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
I owe my solitude to other people. (Quote by - Alan Watts)
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. (Quote by - Colette)
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. (Quote by - Marya Mannes)
We never touch but at points. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)