If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort… — Mooji Copy Share Image
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
True happiness is impossible without solitude… I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
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We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Edward had used work and accomplishments throughout his life to keep the misery at bay. He’d endured so much heartache in the… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“On the other side of the curtain, children were squabbling, a baby was crying, and there was the smell of rat-and-cabbage casserole.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a blessing and curse. You can't look away from creating more and always want to do better and you will… — Crestless Wave Copy Share Image
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Paul Tillich - Loneliness & Solitude: "And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain to pray:… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
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“The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
“If I had been asked in my early youth whether I preferred to have dealings only with men or only with books,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack… — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Moonless Night Existence is lost in bottomless waters and has been held captive by sticky webs of darkness. Oceans are formed by… — iqra iqbal Copy Share Image
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
“I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do.… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I performed the part of an odd, quiet woman, and performed it to everyone's satisfaction. When others slept, I was awake; when… — Margaret Cezair-Thompson Copy Share Image
“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy.… — Alexander Humboldt Copy Share Image
if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York… — Arman Copy Share Image
“A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“If silence were your only friend, know that the universe understands you. If solitude is your only company, know that loneliness has… — Amarjyoti Acharya Copy Share Image
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you… — Stephen Lovegrove Copy Share Image
“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To deepen his meditation practice, Mr. Keledjian took a 10-day retreat of guided meditation in complete silence at the Southwest Vipassana Meditation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
“In Japan, even when you're alone, you're never really that lonely. But the loneliness you feel living among people with differently coloured… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Naked solitude with neither gesture nor word. Transparent in the orchard, smooth as oil on the hill. Silent solitude with neither fragrance… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
![“Paul Tillich - Loneliness & Solitude: "And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain to pray: and when the evening was come, he was alone" - Matthew 14.23. 'He was there alone.' So are we. Man [humankind] is alone because he/[she] is man [human]. In some way every creature…” quote by Paul Tillich](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/137/paul-tillich-3183_inspirational_paul-tillich-loneliness-solitude-and-whe_394893.jpg)
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