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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.
Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul
I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.
Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.
I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.
I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.
Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.
Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.
[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.
In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!
No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.
Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.
O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.
The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.
May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.
A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.