“The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown. — Tony Hatch Copy Share Image
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Being alone makes me feel free and more independent. Responsibility is all I own! — Merlynluzon Copy Share Image
People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. — John Miller Copy Share Image
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others,… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“She continued her own studies, principally attending to German, and to Literature; and every Sunday she went alone to the German and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
