In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
[The Minotaur]
Tags: solitude introspection retreat
Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.
Tags: music power-of-music solitude
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
Henry David ThoreauTags: solitude
Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
Natalie GoldbergI have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.
Jean GionoTags: solitude misanthropy
What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?
Kathy AckerIf you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
Samuel JohnsonLa solitude à deux est l'enfer consenti.
Michel HouellebecqIf you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.
Leonardo da VinciTags: strength solitude loneliness comfort
What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: solitude conformity independence mindfulness do-what-thou-wilt
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