Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“When your mind is quiet, when your mind is in silence, then the new arrives.” — Samael Ann Weor Copy Share Image
I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them. — Larry David Copy Share Image
Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude” — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
Nothing compares to a quiet evening alone. Just the one-two of us, who's counting on? — Paramore Copy Share Image
I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
“There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
“Everyone experiences the feelings of sadness and loneliness. We might rue our lack of companionship, but some people present a desperate need… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, from all the green around you, something-you don't know what-has disappeared; you feel it creeping closer to the window, in total… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen years' slavery.… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“Dawn is such a private hour, don’t you think? Such a solitary hour. One always hears that said of midnight, but I… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Solitude is the only thing that will never help you make your character. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
It's not physical loneliness that troubles us, it's emotional loneliness that hollows us. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.” — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location. — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny. — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” – Aldous Huxley” — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
“But the night doesn't swallow her up. Everywhere she goes she is still there; the silence is as big as herself.” — Adrienne Su Copy Share Image
What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I'm alone. I feel the other way around. Happy and contented. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.” — Schiller Goethe Hebel et al Copy Share Image
There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer. — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
