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Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago, Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream!

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction.

One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

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.

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.

Seclusion is the price of greatness.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

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

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.