Quotes on Solitude
Opinionated quotations from the famous and not-so-famous.
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I presume everybody here has e-mail. How many people here, when a new message comes in, does your computer go "ding" or make some other noise? Do we still have people doing that? What the heck is wrong with you people? I love the fact that computer scientists just know nothing about anything, so for years by default all these packages out of the box would go "ding" every time you get a new piece of e-mail, so we've taken a technology explicitly designed to reduce interruption and we've turned them into interruptions. So you just got to turn that off. The point of e-mail is you go to it when you're ready, not sitting around like Pavlov's dogs saying, "Oh, maybe I'll get another e-mail!"
Randy Pausch from his Time Management Lecture
Approaching solitude for its enjoyment and intrinsic values is linked to psychological health, especially for those who don't feel as if they belong to their social groups.
Thuy-vy Nguyen
I'm awkward and sarcastic and it doesn't translate well. So I try and not foist that upon people.
Selma Blair from Hellboy II: The Golden Army (#ad) DVD commentary
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley
I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.
Elayne Boosler
People who cannot bear to be alone are generally the worst company.
Albert Guinon
If you can't stand solitude, maybe you bore others too.
Bob Gordon
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Arthur Brisbane
The best thinking has been done in solitude.
Thomas A. Edison
I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
Hermits have no peer pressure.
Steven Wright
People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Miller
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle
To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.
Tom Masson
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
Jules Renard
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
Somewhere between 1976 and 1977, there was a NERF commercial where a guy sang "Hey, hey, hey! NERF Basketball is here to stay!" (A person at Facebook thinks it was "here to play.") I wish someone would find that commercial and upload it to a place like YouTube. I knew a kid that had NERF Basketball back then on his bedroom door, but I wasn't able to get one until years later.
NERFOOP image courtesy of Jason Liebig.
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