“Her face had the usual fulness of expression which is developed by a life of solitude. Where the eyes of a multitude… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If… — Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason Copy Share Image
“We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Rural solitude, which provides ample themes for the intellect and sweet occupations innumerable for the minor sentiments, often denies a ready object… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You can’t receive self-assurance or esteem, it’s something you just give yourself. Nothing in the world can complete you, other than yourself.… — Manimal Copy Share Image
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual… — William James Copy Share Image
“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation.… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
“MUSIC: Take me by the hand; it's so easy for you, Angel, for you are the road even while being immobile. You… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“For solitude confers a twofold advantage on the intellectually superior person; first of all, being on his own, and the second, not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I’ve always judged places and times by how lonely they felt. The entire Midwest, for example, strikes me as horrifically lonely, Indiana… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
“I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah,… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
“A community is not a place where 'desert fathers' are testing themselves - more and more, harder and harder, each on his… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
“If I'm going to be working out here in a place that at least feels like the middle of nowhere, I'm going… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...]… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“but he misses it, the running. Trapped in this house, he misses it more than ever. Misses the rhythm of it, the… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image