"Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore."

Cowper, William on solitude
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"Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature."

Einstein, Albert on solitude
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"We walk alone in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind."

Herbert, George on solitude
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"With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves."

Hoffer, Eric on solitude   

"Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on society
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

Abbey, Edward on society
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"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little."

Alger, William R. on soul
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on insanity
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"What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?"

Roethke, Theodore on insanity
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"How strange to have failed as a social creature -- even criminals do not fail that way -- they are the law's Loyal Opposition, so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read."

Unknown, Source on insanity
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"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."

Manson, Charles on insanity
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now."

Twain, Mark on insanity
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on love
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"But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner."

Donne, John on self-sabotage   

"Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself."

Valery, Paul on self-sabotage
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Huxley, Aldous on solitude
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"Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad."

Johnson, Samuel on solitude
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"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."

Khayyam, Omar on solitude
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"As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand."

Lee, Bruce on spirituality
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"The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on spirituality
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"Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear."

Unknown, Source on spirituality   

"If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of."

Borrow, George on suicide   

"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

Connolly, Cyril on suicide
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"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."

Ellis, Havelock on suicide   

"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suicide
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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."

Pavese, Cesare on suicide
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"At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."

Pavese, Cesare on suicide
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"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."

Joubert, Joseph on spirituality
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"Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them."

Holtei on spirituality
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"To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self."

Mabie, Hamilton on solitude
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"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

Mann, Thomas on solitude
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"Solitude begets whimsies."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on solitude   

"An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

Miller, Henry on solitude
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"Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good."

Unknown, Source on solitude
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"Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the 'murderous din of our materialism'."

Merton, Thomas on solitude
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"You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution."

Bolen, Jean Shinoda on soul
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"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

Henley, William Ernest on soul
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