I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [ The Minotaur ]” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“Solitude is never lonely. It is rather a sanctuary where one learns to draw wisdom from the company of self .” — Zohreh Ghahremani Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is really a wonderful companion that can show us so much about ourselves and others.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Loneliness is not a curse, it is a blessing and opportunity to think alone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more." ( Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to step outside to be alone to think about where we are and where we're heading in life. To… — Brigitte Nicole Copy Share Image
“Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Emotion is weakness. It sensitizes you to the trivial and blinds you to the important. Only in detachment can decisions be made… — Joseph R. Lallo Copy Share Image
He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students.… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
“Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had… — Gabriel Garcia Márquez Copy Share Image
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image