“Loneliness is an occasion wherein you decide between meeting yourself or a stranger.” — Harpreet Singh Nanda Copy Share Image
You never get used to lonely. 'Cos when you are alone, the presence of loneliness is always new. — Missing Muffin Copy Share Image
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities! — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk) — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“The windows let in a perfect light, a vibrant light such as you get in the north, where a kind of grey… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Not loneliness, but solitude. Not suffering, but endurance, the discovery of grim kinship with the rocks and sky. And the finding here… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
“It turned out plant collecting was a solitary occupation. In the past Robert had enjoyed being alone, or so he thought. Actually… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Connections are difficult. There’s an irritation in being among people who’ve already found their connection, and finding that those left who haven’t… — Jhonen Vásquez Copy Share Image
I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
“Eventually we find that we no longer need silence. We no longer need solitude. We no longer even need words. We can… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
