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“Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude.”

Wells Two Facts Able Accepting Security Solitude Constant Instinct Seeking Horrible Two Things Communion Grasping

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.”

Able Week Solitude Wilderness Frightening My Thoughts Cabins

Author:Wanda Koop

“as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.”

World Persons Country Able Law Can Do Cities Loneliness Solitude Maps Dictator Up To You Obedient Your Freedom

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.”

Able Decision Behinds Keys Solitude Conviction Superpower

Author:Susan Cain

“I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.”

Way Wells Character Able Actors Solitude Enjoyed Novelists Negotiating

Author:Howard Gordon

“I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.”

Use Able Past Solitude Ambition My Time Preparing Reflecting My Ambition Preparing For Death

Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.”

Thinking Kids Able Left Enjoy Imagination Solitude Endure Enjoyed My Imagination Left Alone

Author:Peter Robinson

“I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi." What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.”

Thinking Firsts Ends Happens Able Remember Used Brain Worry New York Solitude Window Phones Cells Length Shifting Cell Phone Taxi

Author:Dani Shapiro

“I think if you really start practicing, the energy comes. I was always very happy and grateful for the opportunity to have the time, solitude and good health to be able to do it.”

Ifs Thinking Able Opportunity Energy Solitude Grateful Very Happy Good Health Happy And Grateful

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

Men Inspirational Able Peace Rooms Loneliness Solitude Quiet Misery Being Alone Hipster Loneliness And Solitude Sitting Alone Quiet Room Alone Man

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.”

Able Hours Solitude Meetings Oneself Necessary Things

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power...Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Long Real Matter Able Loses Poverty Issues Poet Pride Solitude Long Time Unhappy Poetic Scent Tokens Coexist

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized then, with an amazement I have not been able to lessen since: ‘I am looking at eyes that looked at the Emperor.’ Sometimes I would mention this amazement, but since no one seemed to share it, nor even to understand it (life consists of these little touches of solitude), I forgot about it.”

Littles Sometimes Eye Able Taken Happened Share Brother One Day Solitude Photograph I Realized Emperor Amazement

Author:Roland Barthes

“beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world”

Men World Art Enough Able Understanding Love Is Genius Solitude Hatred Average Creator Average Man

Book:The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”

Want Able Waiting Solitude

Book:Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes and create an internal state of resonance. In such a state, the self is able to alter its constraints by directly reducing the input from interactions with others. (p. 235)”

Needs Mind Self States Able Process Focus Periods Solitude Essentials Internals Interaction Organize Reducing Constraints Input Resonance Interaction With Others

Author:Daniel J. Siegel

“In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence”

Way Able Lasts Solitude Demand Performances Relation Defined Supposed To Be

Author:Richard Rohr

“For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.”

People Self Reason Able Order Subjects Solitude Forgotten Complaining Surrender Pity Instance Charm Admiration Discretion Self Pity Overlooked My Birthday Discreet

Book:The fall

Source: The fall

“The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.”

“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.”

Self Able Loses Solitude Advantage Being Alone Loneliness And Solitude

Book:Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals

Source: Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals

“I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.”

“Find a day for yourself-better yet, late at night. Go to the forest or to the field, or lock yourself in a room ... You will meet solitude there. There you will be able to listen attentively to the noise of the wind first, to birds singing, to see wonderful nature and to notice yourself in it ... and to come back to harmonic connection with the world and its Creator.”

World Firsts Able Night Rooms Wonderful Fields Wind Solitude Late Singing Bird Connections Creator Forests Noise Locks Wonderful Nature

Author:Nachman of Breslov

“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child.”

Children Able Hours Walks Solitude Solitary

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. Control rather than no noise is the key to silence. James saw clearly that the person who could control his tounge is perfect (James 3:1-12). Under the Discipline of silence and solitude we learn when to speak and when to refrain from speaking.”

Persons Eye Able Purpose Speak Perfect Silence Saws Effects Keys Discipline Solitude Mouths Noise Refrain Old Proverb

Book:Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

“Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.”

Source: Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence

“Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself.”

Ifs Heart Able Found Nature Known Greatness Source Return Solitude Eternal Rhythm Finding Yourself Insignificant Chatter Peace Within

Book:Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

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