“As with Jack, the discriminating milieu of loneliness moved Hugh to raise the stakes of solitude, not from a wish to spare… — Edward Cline Copy Share Image
“A light and intermittent snowfall kept my world white over the next several days. The air was fresh and pure, nature's white… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
“Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had… — Gabriel Garcia Márquez Copy Share Image
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Part 7: A Quiet Life “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think.… — George Ilian Copy Share Image
“Winston stopped reading for a moment. Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered. The blissful feeling of being alone with the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Raven had been shunned and abandoned throughout his life. Friends often came and went without a word or worse, they toyed with… — Amanda M. Lyons Copy Share Image
“suffering in the midst of the vast city from solitude so acute that not even the narcotic of late-night television talk shows… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“As we walk away I know they’re watching, these two men who aren’t yet permitted to touch women. They touch with their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude,… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
When I finished reading '100 Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I got really sad. I thought, 'This will never happen… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar,… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I wasn't lonely. Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Think for a moment. You will have time to read—never again will you skim pages to save minutes, or avoid some study… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“Wherever she sought solitude, she was never alone. Suddenly that wasn't a bad thing. There was safety in numbers greater than one… — Nicki Salcedo Copy Share Image
“It was her voice that made The sky acutest at its vanishing. She measured to the hour its solitude. She was the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would never be easy… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
“I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“She lives as if she is constantly on the brink of some great fulfillment. As if she were waiting for Prince Charming… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the issues about the whole ‘being alone’ stance is not having anyone to share the world’s problems with. A person’s… — Ayisha Malik Copy Share Image
I think that all people that get to a certain level of their celebrity are brands. I accept that. I don't value… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students.… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
“lemme spell it out it's not an equation you're the border and i'm the nation you're talkin peace i'm under occupation so… — Antonio Pagliarulo Copy Share Image
Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
