How Solitude Feeds the Brain
Solitude Deprivation A state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
The solitary life, being silent, clears away the smoke-screen of words that man has laid down between his mind and things. In solitude we remain face to face with the naked being of things.
Thomas Merton • Thoughts In Solitude
Solitude is desirable for the freedom it gives you. Distanced from social demands, you can simply follow the wishes of your heart. It’s like an extensive, eyes-open meditation.
David Perell • The Microwave Economy
What Time Alone Offers: Narratives of Solitude From Adolescence to Older Adulthood
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amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
There is something banal and everyday about solitude. Even in company we spend much of our time alone, absorbed in our innermost thoughts and feelings, quietly talking to ourselves. Whether we live in Manhattan or the middle of nowhere, this is our condition.