Solitude As A Choice Quotes

#1. For the first time, in Golconda, she had practiced Larry's choice of withdrawing if the people were not of quality. Of preferring solitude to the effort of pretending he was interested in them.

Anais Nin

#2. Time doesn't heal all, no matter what they say. And tragedies don't make you stronger. That's another popular lie. They just make you more hardened, less surprised by misfortune.

Kim Hooper

#3. How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.

Joyce Rachelle

#4. Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.

Thomas L. Dumm

#5. As a general rule, teenage girls never, ever see solitude as a choice.

Alice Pung

#6. Loneliness is imposed by society, it kills you and solitude
is self inflicted. I enjoy my solitude

Dixy Gandhi

#7. Moments of solitude, rest for the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.

Elaine Morgan

#9. If man will understand the real essence of staying in the solitude with his Maker alone, he will never spend all his time with the crowd always

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. The establishment of a National Methamphetamine Prevention Week will significantly increase awareness of meth and educate the public on effective ways to help prevent its use.

Ron Lewis

#11. Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self.
A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

Parker J. Palmer

#12. I promised myself that I would maintain momentum.
"Maintain momentum" was the imperative that echoed all the way downtown.
In fact I had no idea what would happen if I lost it.
In fact I had no idea what it was.

Joan Didion

#13. There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.

Pietro Belluschi

#14. Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of nutrients, you know what happens?
The diploids break into haploids again. Solitary little haploids. Because, in a crisis, it's easier to survive as a single cell.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#15. Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

Robyn Davidson

#17. You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in the woods by choice
that is my happiness. Here, where I am all alone, it can hurt no one that I am as I am; but when I go among others, I have to use all my will power to be as I should.

Knut Hamsun

#18. She'd rather be alone than settle just because she was lonely, but sometimes - not that she'd admit it to another soul - that choice sucked.

Donna Alward

#19. I have always believed it my right to have a locked door between me and the world, and to hold the key myself. Now look at it, kicked open. The doors are off their hinges, the portals unguarded, every cover blown.

Mihail Sebastian

#20. He was somewhat of a loner by temperament
because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.

Colin Dexter

#21. Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Barbara Kingsolver

#22. Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely as a means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires.

Bertrand Russell

#23. Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Alice Koller

#24. I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's remark about masturbation, that it is sex with someone he loves. I feel as though being alone is hanging out with someone I like.

Anna Quindlen

#25. Solitude is addictive. Being alone, but not lonely, is peaceful and inspiring. It gives you the strength to go back and deal with all the nonsense.

Karen Gibbs

#26. Working efficiently while a movie played was second nature to her by now, more comfortable than silence.

John Darnielle

#27. Solitude is the biggest medicine for once peace, It makes your heart pure and calm.

Debolina Bhawal