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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what’s happened – almost to calm themselves.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.