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Image of Maria Montessori
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.
- Maria Montessori
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of May Sarton
Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.
- May Sarton
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Image of Henri Nouwen
In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.
- Henri Nouwen
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Image of Charles Baudelaire
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
- Charles Baudelaire
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Image of Nikola Tesla
Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences
- Nikola Tesla
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Image of Thomas Merton
I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.
- Thomas Merton
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Image of Karen Marie Moning
Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will do so." "Like yourself?" "Yes Most of my kind have no fondness for solitude. Those who walk alone are not to be trusted." "Really," she said dryly. "Except for me," he amended, with a faint, insouciant grin.
- Karen Marie Moning
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Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Image of Edith Wharton
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.
- Edith Wharton
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Image of Ali ibn Abi Talib
He who understands humanity seeks solitude
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Image of John Milton
Solitude is sometimes best society.
- John Milton
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Image of Mark Twain
If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Pablo Neruda
There is no insurmountable solitude.
- Pablo Neruda
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Image of Melody Beattie
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.
- Melody Beattie
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Image of Thomas Merton
Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.
- Thomas Merton
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Image of Iris Murdoch
There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.
- Iris Murdoch
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Jules Verne
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
- Jules Verne
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Image of Jules Verne
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
- Jules Verne
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Image of Simone Weil
To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).
- Simone Weil
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Image of Tite Kubo
i am a trickster who doesn't know solitude
- Tite Kubo
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Image of Richard Rohr
In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
- Richard Rohr
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Image of Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact
- Octavio Paz
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Image of Vladimir Nabokov
Solitude was corrupting me.
- Vladimir Nabokov
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Image of George Orwell
To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.
- George Orwell
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Image of John Milton
Solitude is sometimes the best society.
- John Milton
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Image of Anais Nin
Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.
- Anais Nin
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Image of Doreen Virtue
Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.
- Doreen Virtue
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Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Image of May Sarton
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
- May Sarton
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Image of Mencius
When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well.
- Mencius
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Image of Virginia Woolf
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.
- Virginia Woolf
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Image of Pablo Neruda
Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
- Pablo Neruda
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Image of Adrienne Rich
Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
- Adrienne Rich
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Image of William Shakespeare
Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Anais Nin
Solitude may rust your words.
- Anais Nin
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Image of Henri Nouwen
Solitude is the furnace of transformation.
- Henri Nouwen
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Image of Vladimir Nabokov
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
- Vladimir Nabokov
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Image of Robert Benchley
Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.
- Robert Benchley
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Image of Albert Camus
There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
- Albert Camus
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Image of Emile M. Cioran
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
- Emile M. Cioran
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Image of Emile M. Cioran
Tears do not burn except in solitude.
- Emile M. Cioran
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Image of Philibert Joseph Roux
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
- Philibert Joseph Roux
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