1,686 Quotes About Solitude





  • Author Padmasambhava
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    Always keep to remote mountain dwellings, since solitude is the source of happiness! Don't live the life of an evil householder, since that causes misery for this and all future lives! Since companions influence your daily deeds, associate with people who are in harmony with the Dharma! (p. 112)

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  • Author William E. Glassley
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    I was where I craved to be, walking alone in the presence of wild solitude, the treasure of aloneness seeping from the sunlight, from the blue waters, from the patterned stones.

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  • Author Rainier Maria Rilke
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    [Y]ou must not let yourself be diverted out of your solitude by the fact that something in you wants to escape from it.

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  • Author Vivian Gornick
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    Everyone who had ever cared to investigate the nature of human loneliness had seen that only one’s own working mind breaks the solitude of the self.

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