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Quotes About Solitude

The best kind of mind is that which minds its own business.
~ Unknown
The person with no friends is not alone, he is very alone.
~ Unknown
You appreciate some people most when they deprive you of the pleasure of their company.
~ Unknown
Nunca fui covarde Mas agora é tarde Amei tanto Que agora nem sei mais chorar Vivi te buscando Vivi te encontrando Vivi te perdendo Ah, coração, infeliz até quando? Para ser feliz Tu vais morrer de dor Amei tanto Que agora nem sei mais chorar Nunca fui covarde Mas agora é tarde É tarde demais enfim A solidão é o fim de quem ama A chama se esvai, a noite cai em mim.
~ Vinicius de Moraes
Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?
~ Vincent Price
When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Iat? de ce, înainte de toate, sunt îndemnat s? cred c? hot?rârea cea mai bun? pe care aÈ™ putea-o lua, ca È™i cea mai înÈ›eleapt?, este aceea de-a pleca È™i de-a r?mâne la distanÈ›a cuvenit?, s? fiu ca È™i cum n-aÈ™ fi.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Victor Hugo says God is an eclipsing lighthouse, and certainly now we are passing through that eclipse. I only wish that someone could prove to us something calming which comforted us, so that we stopped feeling guilty or unhappy and that we could go forward without losing ourselves in the solitude or nothingness, and without having to fear every step, or to nervously calculate the harm we may unintentionally be doing to others.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
For the moment the solitude doesn't bother me, and later we will find someone for company, and perhaps in the end more than we want. I believe it is not necessary to say anything unpleasant to Gauguin if he does change his mind, and take it absolutely in good part.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
And this will remain my policy, and it is quite possible that I shall give up my studio before long and go live in a peasant's cottage, so as not to hear or see educated people - as they call themselves - any longer.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
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~ Unknown
You can't stand having people around you, but then you go completely nuts when you're left all alone.
~ Unknown
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
~ Violette Leduc
Le atemorizaban las presencias porque podían fundirse en ausencia
~ Violette Leduc
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.
~ Virgil
Naked in death upon an unknown shore.
~ Virgil
norii au carnea bolnava, ei sînt singurii sfatuitori ai omului care m-ar fi putut iubi.Mîine si mai departe dementa...
~ Unknown
tu dormi dragostea mea. sînt singur am inventat poezia si nu mai am inima
~ Unknown
she needed the quiet solitude found when the rest of the world was still asleep.
~ Unknown
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
~ Virginia Woolf