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"Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not!"
"When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well."
"Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living."
"Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude."
"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."
"While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior."
"What remains is solitude."
"This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."
"That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude."
"It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister."
"Hermits have no peer pressure."
"The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead."
"If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well."
"Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist."
"Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity."
"He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!"
"She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company."
"Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding."
"The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust."
". . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude."
