“We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I am not loitering" said the Major. "I am simply indulging in a few moments of pastoral solitude"...” — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves. — Carlo Dossi Copy Share Image
“You can't ever really have enough worth that when you're gone, the spot you left won't close over.” — Laura Florand Copy Share Image
“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.” — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was adrift, tugged and pulled by the gravity of solitude, a festering hunger driving me like a relentless martinet” — Peter Tieryas Liu Copy Share Image
“Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“in his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Loneliness sometimes help us to know how farther we can look out for ourself when no one is around, and to help… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I guess I always need some kind of solitude to get to that place where I am open enough and have zero… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“(1) A Quiet Environment Ideally, you should choose a quiet, calm environment with as few distractions as possible. A quiet room is… — Herbert Benson Copy Share Image
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The most incredible thing is that so much happens outside of the will. You can't will anything. Not even solitude is an… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
