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Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.
- Thomas a Kempis
The fewer there are who follow the way to perfection, the harder that way is to find
- Thomas a Kempis
For a spiritual person, it is commendable to rarely venture out, avoid being seen, and have no desire to see others.
- Thomas a Kempis
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
God is the partner of our most intimate soliloquies. That is to say, whenever you are talking to yourself in utmost sincerity and ultimate solitude--he to whom you are addressing yourself may justifiably be called God.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
- Virginia Woolf
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
- Virginia Woolf
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
- Virginia Woolf
But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects; and sounds very remote and then very close; flesh being gashed and blood spurting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.
- Virginia Woolf
Clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
- Virginia Woolf
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.
- Virginia Woolf
I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
- Virginia Woolf