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Quotes about Solitude

Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.
- John Updike
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!
- John Updike
It would not be hard to imagine that a happy hermit, living in isolation, might feel connected to everything in nature and all people on the planet and not be at all affected by a dearth of human neighbors.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you believe in love, do you manifest it or just talk a lot? If you believe in compassion, in non-harming, in kindness, in wisdom, in generosity, in calmness, in solitude, in non-doing, in being even-handed and clear, do you manifest these qualities in your daily life? This is the level of intentionality which is required to keep your meditation practice vital
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
- Henri Nouwen
Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.
- Cicero
In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.
- Marty Rubin
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
- Samuel Beckett
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
- Samuel Beckett
There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be good and you will be lonely.
- Mark Twain
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..
- Martin Luther