How To Use Solitude In A Sentence

Having spent years working and living in London and across Eastern Europe, the solitude and beauty of the landscape offered a powerful draw.
Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
The lifestyle accustomed Johnson to the solitude that now forms his six hour a day, six days a week training regimen.
Those people who need others to confirm their sense of existence fear solitude and find nature's indifference to human beings unendurable.
They fail to realize that elderly people, when reduced to a deplorable state of solitude, have all the more need for someone to talk to and interact with.

The award recognized the challenges involved in the building project and its sympathetic approach to the hermitage, which provides a place for the hermit monks, both male and female to live a life of solitude.
On the contrary, there is a vast shadow of melancholy, a painful sadness, doubt and cross-purpose, boldness at one moment and timidity at the next, a longing for solitude. Half a Rogue
You get a sense of shared solitude, conveyed subtly but precisely, with masterly delicacy and without ostentatious ‘acting’.
he is a gregarious person who avoids solitude
Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude, from the society of every creature, Chapter 5
A lyrical, a scholarly, a fastidious mind might have used seclusion and solitude to perfect its powers.
The few old men I've observed prefer solitude. Times, Sunday Times
It's the usual grab bag of danger that one accepts in exchange for high-alpine solitude, and maybe even satori.
Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
Despite the common portrayal of Canada's two major linguistic groups as ‘two solitudes,’ research shows that anglophones and francophones continue to hold similar values, distinct from those in the United States.
For in solitude the blur of safe indistinction becomes sharp and dangerous identity. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
I am interacting with people all the time as well as having the solitude of the forest. Times, Sunday Times
Foley was perfectly still; he tried not to threaten the solitude that she seemed to be seeking. DANSVILLE
The optimal outcome is to strike a balance between the two and become an ambivert, or someone who enjoys social interaction and solitude equally. edit] Steps Undefined
The trip, including flight and five nights in the Hotel Solitude, costs 570 per person.
From the air they seem desolate, a place where a man could find true solitude. NIMITZ CLASS
A week in the high desert country of the Wind River Range, with time for silence and solitude, sounded just about right.
It had been the perfect place to work on his greatest inventions in complete peace and solitude.
Unless some other canoe is in sight, one paddles along with a sense of solitude amid the mountains and the woods.
No doubt Einstein himself is in some measure responsible for this image, since, in later life, he reflected nostalgically on solitude, isolation, and creativity.
Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
I must weave a veil of dazzling falsehood to hide my grief from vulgar eyes, smoothe my brow, and paint my lips in deceitful smiles -- even in solitude I dare not think how lost I am, lest I become insane and rave. I.9
He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquility becomes free from fear and free from sin.
As Tamara had foretold, after the night of the joyance Danlo found himself craving solitude, and he avoided talking to people. THE BROKEN GOD
Imagine long golden beaches where you can wander in solitude.
Arhat, and resided on Gridhra-kuta3 hill, finding his delight in solitude and quiet. A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
It does not rise before us in detached and disconnected proportions, like that of spiritual loveliness, but in crowds, and in solitude, and in all the throngful varieties of thought and feeling and action, the symmetrical whole, the beautiful perfection comes up in the vision of memory, and stands, like Tales and Sketches Part 3, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches
They were to become isolated to the point that they forged a new selfhood born of solitude, inspired by the type of atavistic visual symbolism that Purist painting provided.
Within the tapestry of Indian thought, solitude is an extremely important path which has to be traversed for the attainment of moksha or nirvana.
It enjoyed solitude, and the peace that goes with solitude. Somewhere East of Life
Sometimes, solitude is of all things my wish; and the awful silence of the night, the spangled element, and the rising and setting sun, how promotive of contemplation! — Clarissa Harlowe
In bed on a Friday night, wearing sweatpants and eating peanut butter from the jar, Madeleine was in a state of extreme solitude.
The lusciousness of solitude is a pleasure I subscribe to.
He lay there for six or seven shortening gasps, while a star, lonely in its solitude, brightened at his zenith. COLDHEART CANYON
Snug in this waterborne nest, he paddled away from the cruel mirth of the swimmers, intent upon solitude. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
Yet thanks to the misapplication of science to religious faith, we remain literal-minded and spiritually immature, frightened of the silence and solitude in which the Ancient of Days, the Unnameable, might be experienced, though never understood. Karen Armstrong and the case for God
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley
Bachelorhood has long taught me that solitude is not loneliness.
There, the fragmentation and interspersion of wooded mountain acreage with homes to accommodate the growing numbers of commuters who work in the District of Columbia and northern Virginia is threatening the solitude and integrity of the nearby Appalachian Trail. posted by John L. Trapp at In Search of Tranquility
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander n abysses of solitude.
Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
We have in prospect eight months of solitude, clinging to the edge of the world's coldest, remotest continent.
Schouten and other heroic marine worthies of distant times had navigated the globe, discovered new worlds, penetrated into the most secret solitudes of the deep without any notion of longitude and with no better instruments to take the sun's height than the forestaff and astrolabe. The Frozen Pirate
Happiness is solitude, thinks the hermit who lives alone on his island.
I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Something in her tone suggested that the inviolated solitude of the asylum suggested itself to her as a fitting spot. The Palace of Darkened Windows
I like solitude, but it is not un-lonely; at least I have drink to comfort me, namu nihonshu nyorai. Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Nyorai
She thought, perhaps by slowing the process down she could delay the moment when her solitude set in.
It enjoyed solitude, and the peace that goes with solitude. Somewhere East of Life
Even in the weak human memory they survive so long as saints, as heroes, as gods; they alone surviving -- peopling, they alone, the immeasured solitudes of time! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
Fearlessly, it went on its endless journey, league upon league to the furthermost regions of Asia, in utter solitude, mysterious.
Foley was perfectly still; he tried not to threaten the solitude that she seemed to be seeking. DANSVILLE
The eccentric shape of the room made a cranny, and here he could create the illusion of solitude.
Those moments of beauty and solitude and peace. Times, Sunday Times
All these things, and far more, seem so much fresher once you settle for old age and have the time and solitude to enjoy them. Times, Sunday Times
Emptiness resides in plenitude and solitude, the problematic path for Buddhists and Romanticists alike. About This Volume
It couldn't survive the unforgiving light of the eighties, and sloped off to die in embarrassed solitude.
Very young children often have secret hideaways where they go to seek solitude.
With the exception of some religious orders in which monks vow to live in solitude, most of us need other people to add texture to our lives.
For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness.
For all their cheerful harmony, his pictures were painted in solitude, with perplexity and misgiving until he saw them in their completed form.
Take a little time out from your life once a year if you can - to go away and find solitude. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps the latter is a way of rendering solitude bearable and of naming the coldest objects that enclose it. Salvatore Quasimodo - Banquet Speech
During her remarkable, epic voyage, Richards, who started sailing as as child in Helensburgh, had to overcome hurricanes, icebergs and soul-destroying solitude.
From the air they seem desolate, a place where a man could find true solitude. NIMITZ CLASS
Time orbit we just one solitude of the subway.
The word solitude was created to express the glory of being alone. Do You Know Who I Am?
The song is a paean to solitude and independence.
Mr. Holland was born in 1819 amidst the then "solitudes" of Norfolk Music and Some Highly Musical People
There is convincing evidence in sociological literature that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need.
After her retreat he led an anchoretical life in that neighborhood, and was murdered by robbers in his solitude. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
This Greek form is commonly believed to be connected with monos, lonely or single, and is suggestive of a life of solitude; but we cannot lose sight of the fact that the word mone, from a different root, seems to have been freely used, e.g. by The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Indeed, it is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power, can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions, to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of the dungeon. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
"Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched," wrote Thomas Cole.
Here we see Heidegger critically pointing the finger at Nietzsche for his radical individualism, which equated freedom with a solitude that denied our worldly contextuality.
Cuthbert led an austere life of prayer and solitude.
He looked her over again quickly, knowing from her bearing and solitude that she wasn't a member of the in-crowd.
I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The happy village was gone -- razed to the very foundations -- the demesne was a solitude -- the songs of the reapers and mowers had vanished, as it were, into the recesses of memory, and the magnificent palace, dull and lonely, lay as if it were situated in some land of the dead, where human voice or footstep had not been heard for years. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
Having nothing else to amuse his solitude, he employed himself in contriving some plan to gratify his curiosity, in despite of the sedulous caution of Janet and the old Highland janizary, for he had never seen the young fellow since the first morning. Waverley
But while the Earl thus withdrew from public society, it was necessary, at least natural, that he should choose some one with whom to share the solitude of his own apartment; and Mowbray, superior in rank to the half-pay whisky-drinking Captain MacTurk; in dash to Winterblossom, who was broken down, and turned twaddler; and in tact and sense to Sir Bingo Saint Ronan's Well
Anchorites and anchoresses lived the religious life in the solitude of an ‘anchorage’, usually a small hut or ‘cell’ built against a church.
Often annoyed by the household's other animals because they prefer solitude. The Sun
To break out of its solitude, it has had to make frequent and conscious efforts.
Among the dividends provided by the Public Choice Center, solitude to plow one's own furrow was distinctly absent.
The boy seeks out the spirit and asks it how he can become a real bear, to which the spirit replies that he must pass three tests of great strength, endurance and solitude.
He started and gazed around "Solitude!" cried he, with a faint smile; "nought is here, but Wallace and his sorrow. The Scottish Chiefs
The detrimental effects of such solitude on health are well documented. Times, Sunday Times
We have just the right amount of time to bond, tempered by long stretches that allow solitude and privacy should we desire them.
Look at eminences in the past, and what stands out in their childhoods is an animus toward school, a tolerance for solitude and families with lots of books.
He would not hear of my attending the funeral, or going for a day or two, to cheer poor Frederick's solitude.
Therefore in the balance between the pleasure of general _society_, and the pain of absolute solitude, _pain_ is the predominant idea. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
But," in the words of De Quincey, "no man can be truly _great_, without at least chequering his life with solitude. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
He described an inborn sense of deep solitude and apartness.
Sensible it was impossible ever to remove the fatal truth, or the impression to her father of her lost virtue, she formed the frantic resolution of setting off for the wild solitudes of Cumberland, and there immure herself alive for the remainder of her existence. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
Seek solitude, by all means, but it might be wise to maintain some contact with the outside world. Times, Sunday Times
Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
In the solitude of the piney trails amidst the muscadines, the spines of his stories emerge - stories that are said to ‘rage with imagery.’
Those moments of beauty and solitude and peace. Times, Sunday Times
And yet, though the necessary hypocrisy of a man of the world may have gangrened a poet, he ends by carrying the faculties of his talent into the expression of any required sentiment, just as a great man doomed to solitude ends by infusing his heart into his mind. Modeste Mignon
_On Evil Daies though fall'n and Evil Tongues, in Darkness, and with Dangers compast round, and Solitude_. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
Creature, less instructive; for it excited me in this my Solitude, to admire the inscrutable Providence of the Powers Divine, who distribute their Benefits diversly; to some the Gifts of Nature, to others those of Exilius
In fact, crowds from all over the world flock here to enjoy its solitude.
Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
He preferred the solitude of his country retreat near New York. Times, Sunday Times
All Miss Bird wanted to do was to contemplate the Falls in solitude, but that was difficult.
I begin my solitude with a large breakfast in which are heavily represented numbers of eggy, fatty and greasy items that my wife does not normally consider essential to start the day.
Beyond his bleak sky-line there stretched vast solitudes, and beyond these still vaster solitudes. In a Far Country
The group makes psychedelic music born of cabin fever rather than hallucinogenics, and in their solitude, they have crafted an album that fits snugly within the temporal schism dividing many of us.
Oh, no -- no; many motives conspired to send her into solitude, that she might in the sanctity of unreproving nature cherish her affection for the youth whose image was ever, ever before her. Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
When she was ready to go up to Muro, she knew that without those letters life in such a solitude would be well nigh unsupportable, whereas, being able to look forward to them, and to answering them, her hours of idleness were already a foretasted pleasure. Taquisara
In this case also, we are not really in a place of solitude or quietude, except in a superficial sense.
The group makes psychedelic music born of cabin fever rather than hallucinogenics, and in their solitude.
Loving you is price of solitude.
Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
It is a creature of solitude, travelling alone, and a splendour in the bush.
His early solitude narrowed his affinities, and gave a kind of bloodlessness to his style; clear in hue, fine in texture, it is apt to want the mellow tinge which indicates a robust and copious life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867
She had moreover a great fondness for intervals of solitude, which since her arrival in England had been but meagrely met. The Portrait of a Lady
I am there to enjoy the solitude. Times, Sunday Times
It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes & barrens & wilds.
Between the great world and solitude, he needs the intermediate filling - up which the life domestic alone supplies: a wife to realize the sweet word helpmate; children, with whose future he could knit his own toils and his ancestral remembrances. What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06
This delicious, melancholic vision both romanticises the subject and bathes the object in writerly, almost heroic solitude.
In relation to power, it is, like solitude, the open heaven through which the grandeurs of eternity flow into the penetralian recesses of the human heart, after that once the faculties of thought, or the sensibilities, have been powerfully awakened. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
Catherine shuddered as she heard the stuffless sounds, the tiny rustlings and burrowings of those wild, shy creatures whose solitude had lately been so rudely invaded, and who now of man's night made their day. Studies in love and in terror
The warmth of the welcome is overwhelming given the previous hours of solitude.
Known as Sufi (literal meaning - wool, as in ascetics who wore woolen garments), they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts.
She prefers the silence and solitude of the field to the distracting quick pace of urban living.
AVE you ever sailed around Point Grey? asked a young Squamish tillicum of mine who often comes to see me, to share a cup of tea and a taste of muck-a-muck that otherwise I should eat in solitude. Legends of Vancouver
He preferred the solitude of his country retreat near New York. Times, Sunday Times
Her other home was on the Suffolk coast where many of her ideas came to her and where she enjoyed solitude. Times, Sunday Times
He would stay until he started to tire of the solitude, however long that might be.
From the air they seem desolate, a place where a man could find true solitude. NIMITZ CLASS
They had spent a winter of solitude and starvation on a lonely Aleutian isle, and their rescue in the spring by another fur-ship had been one chance in a thousand. Lost Face
I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation — deep, dark, deathlike solitude. Chapter 9
The mysterious sounds, the soft voices - I enjoy the silent solitude of the night.
All these things, and far more, seem so much fresher once you settle for old age and have the time and solitude to enjoy them. Times, Sunday Times
In the 'solitudes' to which he refers I worked with deliberation, endeavouring even to purify my intellect by disciplines similar to those enjoined by his own Church for the sanctification of the soul. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
Of course, his own eminence contributed to his isolation, but he also chose solitude as his appropriate fate.
This trance is achieved in complete solitude and yogis can enter into it or get out of it at will.
All was peace, light and solitude - which can do strange things to a person.
Learn to value and enjoy solitude and your own company and thoughts. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
I load the cart practically to toppling and roll it across the stream into the arms of my beloved solitude.
The drive back here was delightful, from the wintry height, where I must confess that we shivered, to the slumbrous calm of an endless summer, the glorious tropical trees, the distant view of cool chasm-like valleys, with Honolulu sleeping in perpetual shade, and the still blue ocean, without a single sail to disturb its profound solitude. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Maybe you like the peace and solitude of the early hours of the morning so that you can get on with various important tasks uninterrupted.
I'll drive relishing the solitude; and there are lots of hijras in Jaisalmer.
If we think about it, Mrs Woodcourt must be wretched as she remains, in solitude, at the southern Bleak House, thinking about the jollifications in Yorkshire.
Those moments of beauty and solitude and peace. Times, Sunday Times
I left convinced that solitude is best enjoyed with friends. Times, Sunday Times
For a few hours, my kid was next door at the Nappers and I had peace and solitude.
I left convinced that solitude is best enjoyed with friends. Times, Sunday Times
Take a little time out from your life once a year if you can - to go away and find solitude. Times, Sunday Times
Devout Christians sought austere monasteries and convents for a period of solitude and the chance to be reunited with God.
Here was a place where she could dream to her heart's content in peaceful solitude and study her scores without interruption.
The few old men I've observed prefer solitude. Times, Sunday Times
Enjoy the solitude and the view, but a high house shouldn't be a high horse. Times, Sunday Times
Enjoy the solitude and the view, but a high house shouldn't be a high horse. Times, Sunday Times
We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative. Boing Boing
Clubs" are next recommended for those fond of solitude, and their satin luxuries humorously quizzed; but "the Colonial System," which follows, has more causticity. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828
Deprived of others, free solitude, like the astronauts' weightless state, dilapidates muscles, bones, and blood.
She sought solitude, and avoided us when in gaiety and unrestrained affection we met in a family circle. I.10
All the attacks were on couples enjoying some late-night solitude in cars at isolated car parks.
From the air they seem desolate, a place where a man could find true solitude. NIMITZ CLASS
Often annoyed by the household's other animals because they prefer solitude. The Sun
It tells us that God is, in a sense, a community of persons, not a solitary living in solitude, alone and distant.
After wishing for wings to fly over to his dear country, which was in his view, from what he calls Thule, as being the most western isle of Scotland, except St. Kilda; after describing the pleasures of society, and the miseries of solitude, he at last, with becoming propriety, has recourse to the only sure relief of thinking men, ” Life of Johnson
Early in 1856 (20th of January) the notion revisited him of writing a book in solitude. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
Solitude has austere lessons; it can teach us to spare both heroes and poets; and it weighs Shakespeare also, and finds him to share the halfness and imperfection of humanity. Representative Men
She sought solitude and tried to escape into daydreaming.
There seemed something more sensible about a society where mothers and children fled the city for the Catskills, the Hamptons, Maine, etc., while their husbands stayed behind in blissful, if sweat-stained, solitude, joining them on weekends or in August. Summers in Letters
Hume reached this conclusion after his first foray into philosophy, when he was led by his own considerable powers of reason "into such dreary solitudes, and rough passages, as I have hitherto met. John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300
Allez youste on va pas chier une pendule pour trois trou du cul qu'on peur de la solitude! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
In the house behind them, in the mistal and the orchard, in the long marshes of the uplands and on the brooding hills there was stillness and solitude. The Three Sisters
I won't even delve into the confusion between solitude and the ‘modern malaise’ of feeling lonely, which I've prattled on about before.
It is such solitude that speaks in the first "Impression of Notre-Dame" with its gray mounting masses, its cloisteral reverberation of bells, its savage calls of the city to one standing alone with the monument of a dead age. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
It's a question of how you use periods of unplanned solitude.
But if he returned to solitude, it was henceforth to be as the French say, a _solitude à deux_. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)
In our country, May 27th is a day for celebration, a day when the people of Guadeloupe remember the struggle led by Ignace, Delgrès, Masoto and Solitude for the liberation of Guadeloupeans, who were held in servitude by the French colonialists. Global Voices in English » Guadeloupe: In May 2009, keep May 1802 and May 1967 in mind
Her other home was on the Suffolk coast where many of her ideas came to her and where she enjoyed solitude. Times, Sunday Times
So they took him and bore him to the bridewell, where they laid him in irons and left him seated in solitude, unremembered by any. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The grandeur of towering pines, the mysterious dimness of illimitable arcades, and the peculiar resinous odor that stole like lingering ghosts of myrrh, frankincense and onycha through the vaulted solitude of a deserted hoary sanctuary, all these phases of primeval Southern forests combined to weave a spell that the stranger could not resist. At the Mercy of Tiberius
Copying the works of others protects the solitude of the monastic cell from more intrusive forms of ministry.
Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
What do you prefer - playing live or recording spectacular music in the solitude of a recording studio?
Upon receiving this recognition, he left the East Mountain community and withdrew into solitude.
Players from other countries might have enjoyed the solitude. Times, Sunday Times
One would have said that the writer must have threaded its wildest solitudes by the light of the moon and stars as well as by day.
Solo viola and cello passages sang of solitude; shivering violins sent the temperature plunging. Times, Sunday Times
If one wanted time and space, a good place to find it was the churchlike solitude of acres of bare vines where the only sounds were the whistling wind and the sweet cries of the first birds of spring. The Viognier Vendetta
As increasing numbers of people choose to live or work alone, solitude is often celebrated in 2001.
After a stretch of dusty track, I climbed a slope onto a wooded headland, turned a corner and was immediately engulfed by the overwhelming solitude that is Lake Titicaca.
Now she lives alone in an apartment with her four cats, a solitude that has led her to consider moving to a monastery.
middies" (the boy officers), who are often sent there to air themselves, and profit, if they can, by calm reflection in exalted solitude. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
What might happen if he allowed himself to leave the safety of haughty solitude and moral superiority, to love other human beings who are beyond his control?

How To Use Solitude In A Sentence

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