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“There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.”

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Book:A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

“There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”

Stills Wall Solitude Beats Wine Bitter Poison Solitary Being Alone Seclusion

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!”

Thinking Life Has Beens Country Solitude Towns Slavery Green Command This Life Solitary Captains Coast Entrances Weariness Desolation Guinea Heaviness

Author:Herman Melville

“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.”

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Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure.”

Writing Feelings Certain Solitude Mouths Praise Breaths Tongue Odd Nerves Solitary Crushed Chins Nipples Metallic Trespassing

Book:Poems 1960-2000

Source: Poems 1960-2000

“Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.”

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Author:Roger Ascham

“We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.”

People Cities Solitude Gray Solitary Outcast Cain

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

“A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.”

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Author:Gaston Bachelard

“The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is new attentiveness to their needs, new responsiveness to their hurts. Thomas Merton observes, 'It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them.... Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.”

“Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.”

“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.”

People Solitude Quiet Alone Solitary Public Hermit

Book:The Anatomy of Melancholy

Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy

“Alone time is something that should not be looked down upon. Perhaps people who crave deep silence and solitude are connected to their purpose more than anyone else does, while those who do not believe in the beauty of a solitary mind seem to lack a sense of their own depths.”

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Author:Sai Pradeep

“You are alone, So alone, You speak back to silence. People call it loneliness, You call it solitude, Different words, Meaning the same pain.”

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Book:The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems

Source: The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems

“Betrayal, it was the most solitary word of all, beyond abandonment, beyond torture, beyond hatred. It was the human act that cut the most deeply, splintering north from south and east from west.”

Humanity Human Nature Solitude Betrayal Solitary The Measure Of Gold Sarah C Patten Quotes

Book:The Measure of Gold

Source: The Measure of Gold

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