#solitude

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#introversion #introvert #philosophy #social #solitude

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all. ↗

— Rollo May

#solitude #introspection

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude. ↗

— Mary Shelley

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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

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We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts. ↗

— Tamim Ansary

#alone-time #solitude #new-thought

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Solitude sometimes is best society. ↗

— John Milton

#privacy #solitude #society

Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence. ↗

— Wisława Szymborska

#silence #solitude #imagination