“Two o’clock in the morning with a newborn is the loneliest hour in the world.” — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
“There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present. — Gwen Davis Copy Share Image
“Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Loneliness, the uninvited dilemma. You are born alone and you will die alone.” — Ingrid Holm-Garibay Copy Share Image
You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it, if there were not a friend? The friend… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What you allow is what will continue. Its always better to spend more time alone than allow negative people and their opinions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
“Information does not make a philosophy, information only makes a memory, what makes a philosophy is the way ideas are rotated in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
“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
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their… — Sigurd F. Olson 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
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
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
A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir.… — David A. Cooper Copy Share Image
