“...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.” — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.” — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Im the person who is always quiet but once I cant take it anymore I will just say what's on my mind — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
As much as group work is important, it's better to work alone than to work with the wrong group. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself.” — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can… — Tamim Ansary Copy Share Image
“The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that “no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth,… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Four billion people on this earth but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“there is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to a few on this Earth, and whom only… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“You can be a rich person alone. You can be a smart person alone. But you cannot be a complete person alone.… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
“An Egyptian monk, after fifteen years of complete solitude, received a packet of letters from his family and friends. He did not… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
