Best reflection & solitude Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.”

World Mind Book Compassion Accepting Support Solitude Reflection Gains Thirds Retirement Fourth Deceiving Flattery Civility Treacherous

Book:The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life

Source: The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life

“On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude”

Men Humans Acceptance Solitude Reflection Human Life Musings

Author:William Wordsworth

“With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”

People Eye Loneliness Solitude Reflection Lonely Being Alone All Alone Loneliness And Solitude

Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.”

Possibility Television Communication Solitude Mass Reflection Radio Genocide Mass Communication

Author:Eugenio Montale

“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace”

Way Kind Hard Enough Given Doors Conditions Loneliness Solitude Reflection Ideals Convinced Foolish Convince Tranquility Something Better Enough Time Equilibrium

Book:The Good Guy

Source: The Good Guy

“I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams”

World Want Two Book Dream Hands Earth Loss Fiction Saws Solitude Reflection Riding Pale Echoes Spine Reverie Second Hand

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.”

Heart Soul Eye Next Dark Doors Solitude Reflection Performances Theater His Eyes Grenouille

Author:Patrick Süskind

“Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”

Source: Real Moments

“Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.”

Self Moments Happiness Enemy Solitude Quiet Reflection Selfishness

Author:William B. Ogden

“The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.”

Kids Lines Loneliness Fine Solitude Reflection Fine Lines Loneliness And Solitude

Author:Brad Mehldau

“Silence can be louder than words, especially in the dead of night.”

Night Silence Solitude Reflection Stillness Unfinished 27 Minutes Adhoray 27 Minutes

Author:Mr. Bilal Mukhtar

“Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?”

Silence Solitude Reflection

Book:Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.”

Solitude Reflection Wishing

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Dying is something I have to do alone.”

Death Human Nature Acceptance Solitude Reflection Vulnerability Mortality Existential Introspective Inevitability

Book:The Berry Pickers

Source: The Berry Pickers

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