The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude? — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings — John Keats Copy Share Image
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
“Solitude is the biggest medicine for once peace, It makes your heart pure and calm.” — Debolina Bhawal Copy Share Image
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude. — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
Quiet people get the most accomplished cause their next move is always unknown. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We weren't meant to live forever, nor dwell in solitude. A life without change is no life.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
“In order to work with difficult outer circumstances, we need to gather our inner strength. If even ten or twenty minutes of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“They were both from the real world, their own distinct ones, but I was somewhere in limbo. Set apart, I didn't know… — Amina Gautier Copy Share Image
I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“As a fringe benefit, practicing silent solitude enables us to sleep less and to feel more energetic. The energy expended in the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Something everybody had, Like nakedness, it lay… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places. — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone. — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
“Eagles remind us of the power of solitude and reflection, as they retreat to high places to rest and renew their strength” — Dr. Lucas D. Shallua Copy Share Image
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude. — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
“No retreat, no way around, one has to take their fight to the end.” — Trygve Gulbranssen Copy Share Image
“No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return — John Milton Copy Share Image
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
