Virginia Woolf Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Solitude Quotes

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

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I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

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He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.

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The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

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A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

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The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.

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Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

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Isolation must precede true society.

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Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

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...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again.

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But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

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Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

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