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Quotes about Solitude

Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it.
- Holly Hunter
Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.
- Lisa Wingate
Most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
- Aristotle
When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
- Vincent Van Gogh
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars.
- Vincent Van Gogh
So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.
- Vincent Van Gogh
For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.
- Vincent Van Gogh
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
- Virginia Woolf
Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
- Francis Chan
Stand for right, even if you stand alone.
- Thomas Monson
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.
- Herman Melville
I relish the sense of being alone with nature, knowing that of all people in the world only I am hearing these sounds in this place. The tranquil mood feels vaguely religious, what I should be feeling in church but rarely do. In
- Philip Yancey