“Too tired for company, You seek a solitude You are too tired to fill.” — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon.” — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“Cooking out and hanging out aren't really my things," I admit. "I prefer delivery and solitude.” — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“Without solitude, we cannot fix the scattered pieces of our plans, hopes, wishes together.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.” — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“Solitude doesn’t kill a person; it grants peace to the soul and mind.” — Ayoub Imilouane Copy Share Image
A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
How would Jonathan Lethem have obtained such a stellar endorsement for 'The Fortress of Solitude' from Michael Chabon, if not for the… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
“No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
People think being alone makes you lonely but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest… — Amanda Copy Share Image
“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Loss and loneliness, loneliness being the sadder and grayer of the two. Loss means that someone beloved is irretrievable, and as bad… — T.M. Goeglein Copy Share Image
Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Loneliness could either go two way's. It might be what you exactly what you need at the time, To figure out something… — Simpleman Copy Share Image
St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
“...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“And by it we enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. Only discord can come of the attempt to share solitude.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
