Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Men and women sleep not with each other but with the memories, the regrets, the hopes of unions yet to come. Our… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
“The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.” — John Grogan Copy Share Image
In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“To enter solitude, we must disregard what others think of us. Who will understand this call to aloneness? Even our closest friends… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
“Everyone experiences the feelings of sadness and loneliness. We might rue our lack of companionship, but some people present a desperate need… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“What are the path of love and the path of meditation? There are basically two different paths to enlightenment. These two paths… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“You want to know what I really learned? I learned that people don’t consider time alone as part of their life. Being… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I'd always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
“A night of exhilaration, of boredom and terror, in which the merest of sounds took on other forms - grew large in… — richard skelton Copy Share Image
“At first the lives of women frightened me. They seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers.… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
“The group mind was such (private jokes and bemusement, everyone clustered round vacation videos on the iPhone) that it was hard to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“You must learn one thing: the world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on… — Thom S. Rainer Copy Share Image
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
“It sounds ironic to say that the cure for loneliness is aloneness. I don’t mean that you should just make yourself more… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, meu amor, we lose too much time asking ourselves questions that we can’t answer and forgetting that the answer is just… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
“... all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
As much as I love my family, I enjoy it when the house is empty, because then I know I'm truly alone,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your own hand. Aloneness was the air in your tires,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
