“There is a wilderness we walk alone However well-companioned” — Stephen Vincent Benét Copy Share Image
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And when I'm lonely, with everyone around I go to my happy place where I'm alone” — Talia Basma Copy Share Image
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...” — Jean-Pierre Melville Copy Share Image
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you meet me, you think I am quiet. Then you get to know me and just wish I was quiet — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
“Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.” — Allen Shawn Copy Share Image
The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.” — John Grogan Copy Share Image
“Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that you don't need anyone, you can take care of… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“there is no such thing as loneliness. There is only the idea of loneliness…what lines, and what a strange concept-that the fear… — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
“I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Learn how to be lonely. Learn what it’s like to know that you are coming home to yourself night after night- that… — Kristina Haynes Copy Share Image
There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Being alone is being away from others because you choose to. Being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness is a fact of life and pass up opportunities to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The value of solitude—one of its values—is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
