In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“The key aspect to remember is that only you can truly resolve your loneliness. Change can only come from within.” — Mary Jane Perruso Copy Share Image
I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or… — John Wells Copy Share Image
“She wanted the solitude of the cliffs. She wanted to be alone until the hurt dwindled, until it was small enough to… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Go. Exit. Evacuate. Depart. Embark. Leave. Retreat. Subside. Cease. Vanish. Disappear. Fade. This is the end of my fears, worries and troubles.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When you feel all alone, and a loyal friend is hard to find, you're caught in a one way street with the… — Savage Gardien Copy Share Image
Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness -- an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image