“Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
“I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you’ve been wasting your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.'… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Solitude would unveil the strength of your mind which has the capacity to improvise the level of indeed self confidence and hope.… — Steffi Stare Copy Share Image
If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“We see much more of this loneliness now. It's paradoxical that that where people are the most closely crowded in the big… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
“SONG OF DAWN I saw the sun rise by accident. It was a horrible sight. Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refuge… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
“At an early age I found myself facing the incomprehensible, the unthinkable, death. Ever since, I have known nothing on this earth… — Edmond Jabès Copy Share Image
