"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."

Solitude, Mind, Peace, Reflection, Time

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"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."

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"Sickness awakens sadness sleeps- Moments of aloneness results into peace."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Solitude, Sadness, Peace, Healing

"Solitude is independence."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Solitude, Independence

"To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion? There is nobody-here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Solitude, Loneliness, Passion, Tradition, Feeling

"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Solitude, Loneliness, World, Care, Isolation

"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

"At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Solitude, Music, Emotion, Pain

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Solitude, Peace, Truth, Contentment

"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Solitude, Isolation, Emotion, Longing

"I love my loneliness as it helps me gather strength to deal with people."

Amit Abraham, Indian Motivational Speaker

Solitude, Strength, Reflection, Awareness

"He sat beside the window in the dark, with his eyes closed. Hearing to the sound of the rain. The whisky in his glass burnt his throat, while the smoke of his cigarette filled his lungs and the fire inside his heart consumed his soul slowly."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

Solitude, Loneliness, Darkness, Pain, Reflection

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"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."

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"Sickness awakens sadness sleeps- Moments of aloneness results into peace."

"Solitude is independence."

"To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion? There is nobody-here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone."

"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."

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

"At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me."

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."

"I love my loneliness as it helps me gather strength to deal with people."

"He sat beside the window in the dark, with his eyes closed. Hearing to the sound of the rain. The whisky in his glass burnt his throat, while the smoke of his cigarette filled his lungs and the fire inside his heart consumed his soul slowly."

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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief."

"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

"Speech is the index of the mind."

"Whom they have injured they also hate."

"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."

"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."

"Do everything as in the eye of another."

"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."