“Independence is the luxury of all those people who are too confident, and busy, and popular, and attractive to be just plain… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“At bottom, for me, the act of writing is a sort of dialogue with God. I say with God, but I am… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness... At work, they regarded her as a person apart... They imagined there must be more… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Samoća nije živeti sam, samoća je kad nismo sposobni da pravimo društvo nekome ili nečemu što se nalazi duboko u nama, samoća… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“And now, a year has passed since I undertook to go to war, and I wake every day, sweating, in the solitude… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Are there things about yourself which you have never told anyone? Way back upon the creaky floors of your childhood, in your… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“What made Madeleine sit up in bed was something closer to the reason she read books in the first place and had… — Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
