Quotes 21 till 40 of 62.
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
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In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
The Painted Drum (2005) -
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.
The Weight of Glory -
No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. VII -
Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
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