"She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart."

Solitude, Waiting, Cold, Heart

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"She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart."

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"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Solitude, Night, Alone, Stars, Isolation

"This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Solitude, Peace, Healing, Self

"A wounded heart needs aloof."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Solitude, Healing, Truth, Power, Today

"At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Solitude, Loneliness, Advice, Success, Help

"When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Solitude, Love, Time, Separation

"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."

David Levithan, American Author

Solitude, Loneliness, Acceptance, Desire, Alone

"Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Solitude, Pain, Isolation, Waiting, Desire

"The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Time, Opportunity, Value

"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Treasure, Value, InnerPeace

"In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Solitude, Listening, Voice, Sacred

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"How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!"

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"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."

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"It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence."

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"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool."

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"If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living."

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"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."

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"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."

"This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."

"A wounded heart needs aloof."

"At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed."

"When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing."

"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."

"Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."

"The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you."

"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."

"In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice."

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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

"How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!"

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

"In the long run one gets used to anything."

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"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."