Solitude Quotes - Page 22

• You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Should Have

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark of your own streams and oceans; [to] explore your own higher latitudes; [to] be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Parks, Columbus

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• As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

  Sally Brampton

  People, Silence, House

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• Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

  May Sarton

  Self, People, Elements

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

  Taylor Momsen

  Writing, Isolation

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Dream, Mistake, Destiny

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• 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.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Grateful, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Most religions have always appreciated the extreme power of concentrated thought directed toward the benefit of others, especially when that person is practicing in solitude. That's why they have contemplative orders.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Order, Benefits, Appreciated

  Source: fpmt.org

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• The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

  Ed Simons

  Listening, Laptops, Modern

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Trying, Needs

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

  Alison Bechdel

  Country, New York, Mean

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Remember what peace there may be in silence.

  Max Ehrmann

  Silence, May, Remember

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

  Brit Marling

  Lonely, Novelists, Endeavor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Phones, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge my batteries in solitude, therefore the motorcycle trips. I need to be alone. As a matter of fact, I have to be careful. I could turn into a hermit.

  William H. Macy

  Order, Motorcycle, Matter

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

  Terrence McNally

  Technology, Promise, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Children, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.

  Richard Ford

  Tolerance, Abandon

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

  Richard Ford

  Thinking, Done

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I feel like I veer more away from technology than toward it. I'm a little scared of the direction we're going, to be honest. It feels like a sci-fi novel from the '50s, the way we can control everything and the solitude we each have in our own little bubbles, and yet we feel like we have social interactions. We're moving in a weird direction, at least.

  Martin Starr

  Moving, Technology, Scared

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously stunted.

  Tricia Rhodes

  Spiritual

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to such an extent that while you're creating, you feel very self-sufficient. I've certainly experienced that.

  Joyce Johnson

  Art, Thinking, Discipline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

  Joyce Johnson

  Sacrifice, Dedication, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I actually am locked away. I think I have 4.6 million Instagram followers, which is obviously a great way to communicate my work and my life. But it's also a form of protection, because I don't want everybody to see my process. What I want to share in the pictures I post is something dreamier than reality. I love solitude. I love escaping into my mind and sketching. Sometimes I travel alone. I'm the first one at the office in the morning, the last one closing the door. People don't expect that, because on Instagram I have a reputation as a party boy who takes selfies all day.

  Olivier Rousteing

  Morning, Party, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that all people that get to a certain level of their celebrity are brands. I accept that. I don't value it in any personal way. I value it as an element of my work. I'm more pragmatic in that sense. I do get very rattled if I don't get enough normalcy in my life. I like solitude. I can't even write music if I'm not isolated.

  Shania Twain

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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