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Quotes about Solitude

E avevo OASIS. La mia vita non era poi così male. O almeno è quello che continuavo a ripetermi, nel vano tentativo di alleviare la solitudine in cui mi ero trovato a vivere.
- Ernest Cline
Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars.
- Ernest Cline
Getting outside is highly overrated.
- Ernest Cline
You and me, we've made a separate peace.
- Ernest Hemingway
Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.
- Eugene Peterson
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
- Bill Bradley
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
- Abraham Lincoln
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
- Henri Nouwen
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.
- Ernest Hemingway
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
- John Updike
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
- Ernest Hemingway
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.
- Henri Nouwen