#solitude

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#instructed #only #society #solitude

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. ↗

— Zane Grey

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Solitude begets whimsies. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#solitude

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#anguish #delivered #loneliness #needs #solitude

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#carefree #explains #free state #happy #houses

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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