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• A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

  Ted Dekker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Silence, Solitude

• I prefer to be left alone with my books.

  Alison Weir

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• My favorite books are actually very complicated – ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, ‘Ulysses’.

  James Patterson

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  Tags in Complicated, Solitude
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  A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

  Don DeLillo

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  Tags in Solitude, Writing
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  Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

  Paulo Coelho

  Topics in Fear

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  Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

  Socrates

  Topics in Friendship

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

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Topics in Society

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  Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Silence, Solitude

• There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness.

  Maggie Smith

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  Tags in Solitude, Difference

• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Topics in Humanity, Life, Love, Success

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Solitude, Heart, Inspiration

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in People, Solitude, Highest, Protect, Hold

• All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don’t interest me.

  Francoise Sagan

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  Tags in Solitude, Interest

• In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

  Jonathan Sacks

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  Tags in Broaden, Solitude

• 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 Emerson

  Topics in Education, Inspirational

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  A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

  Oscar Wilde

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• I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it–and that’s all I got.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Topics in Confidence, Fear, Life, Truth

  Tags in Solitude, Self-Knowledge, Self-Esteem

• But I think there’s something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I’m very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

  Andy Serkis

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  Tags in Wonderful, Solitude, Mountains

• Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

  Edward Gibbon

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• Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

  Frank Muir

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  Tags in Superiority, Solitude, Gentle

• Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

  Paul Brunton

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  Tags in Solitude, Depend