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I write from solitude and I speak from solitude...However I did not seek solitude. I found it. And f...
CAMILO JOSE CELA

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write.
AVIJEET DAS

Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV

To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it di...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
RAINER MARIA RILKE

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
ASHLEIGH

One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.
STENDHAL

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Bo...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
PATRICIA SAMPSON

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNANIMO

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.
FLETCHER

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. -...
JULES RENARD

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The...
ROGER ROSENBLATT

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone...
OCTAVIO PAZ

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitteres...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Silence is one great art of conversation.
ANONYMOUS

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
ANONYMOUS

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write...
CATIE CURTIS

I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
JEFF LINDSAY

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
CATIE CURTIS

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
A. S. BYATT

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
ZANE GREY

I like peace and solitude and silence.
CARLA BRUNI

I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS

I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN W. WATTS

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply int...
WILFRID LAURIER

I changed my mind-set and attitudes through the process of solitude
SUNDAY ADELAJA

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more ...
THOMAS MERTON

We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solit...
SCOTT STABILE

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
PAULO COELHO

Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.
NIKKI ROWE

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
KAREN ARMSTRONG

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each d...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

I still love to love my friends, but I punctuate those moments with solitude.
STEPHANIE KLEIN

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I recreated myself through solitude
SUNDAY ADELAJA

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steal...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my h...
MARK BURNETT

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON

I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possess...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful t...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and de...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." B...
WILLIAM COWPER

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
MICHAEL CHABON

I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
IRIS CHANG

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes...
BRENNAN MANNING

In times of solitude, I have find rest for my soul and uphold the glory of inner peace.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to...
COLETTE

From the solitude of the wood, [Man] has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
LOREN EISELEY

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of min...
KNUT HAMSUN

I write because there is a madness within me to express my thoughts in words. I write because I feel...
AVIJEET DAS

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet sol...
WILLIAM JAY

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
IRIS CHANG

I can tell you that solitude
Is not all exaltation, inner space
Where the soul breathes an...
MAY SARTON

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a...
BELL HOOKS

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
NAOMI JUDD

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
ERIC CLAPTON

Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist w...
JANE GARDAM

The time of solitude eliminates distractions from our life and our mind
SUNDAY ADELAJA

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whi...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I...
DAVID MARKSON

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently fr...
FRANZ KAFKA

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his s...
PAUL VALéRY

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
GEORGES BATAILLE

If I lost everybody around me for standing up for what I believed in then I'd have no qualms - so on...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKA

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creati...
JOHN WELLS

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulf...
ELIE WIESEL

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
JEREMY COLLIER

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing b...
BRADLEY CHICHO

I watched the contrast of dark and light form shadows in solidarity. Neither projects a shadow in so...
IAN IJH HOWELL

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE

Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awaren...
VICENTE ALEIXANDRE

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p...
ANAïS NIN

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.
FRED ROGERS

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very groun...
HENRI NOUWEN

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – t...
SUZANNE COLLINS

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom onl...
JOSEPH CONRAD

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
HONORé DE BALZAC

I write from solitude and I speak from solitude...However I did not seek solitude. I found it. And from my solitude I think, work, and live - and I believe that I write and speak with almost infinite composure and resignation. In my solitude I consta

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I write from solitude and I speak from solitude...However I did not seek solitude. I found it. And from my solitude I think, work, and live - and I believe that I write and speak with almost infinite composure and resignation. In my solitude I consta

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