#solitude

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one. ↗

— Freema Agyeman

#comfort #hotels #i #i believe #i love

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#companionable #found #i #never #solitude

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#could #ideal #people #pick #solitude

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. ↗

— Iris Chang

#i do #i love #love #mind #need

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#enough #few #few people #foolishness #knowledge

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write. ↗

— Catie Curtis

#hard #i #me #need #pretty

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #expresses #glory #loneliness

Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was needed. Pride, she thought. Pride alone made them think that they needed only themselves, could shape life that way, like Adam and Eve, like gods from nowhere beholden to nothing except their own creations. She should have warned them, but her devotion cautioned against impertinence. As long as Sir was alive it was easy to veil the truth: that they were not a family-not even a like-minded group. They were orphans, each and all. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#solitude #family

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him. ↗

— James Salter

#reading #solitude #spiritual-needs #food