If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not… — David Markson Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I reveled in solitude. If Lily wanted to believe there was a somebody out there just for her, I wanted to believe… — Rachel Cohn David Levithan Copy Share Image
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
“I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not… — William Drummond Copy Share Image
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“Now the voices and the sound of movement were gone, and the stream could be heard running quietly under its banks. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human situation in which I keep myself company.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“For here, inside the crypt, was where he truly lived. Which is to say, for well over twenty hours a day in… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
“No, no, sometimes a person feels to be alone." "If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much." "Without a… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature have never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
“In torment, there was release. In the darkness, there was light. In solitude, there were companions.” — C.C. Humphreys Copy Share Image
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse. — Urmila Matondkar Copy Share Image
Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead. — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“In the place of solitude, you are able to take advantage of time and bring forth children in the form of products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great. — Danielle Fishel Copy Share Image
“From whence cometh the pounding of desire if not from the depths of loneliness?” — Martin Cosgrove Copy Share Image
Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“He had reached the point where all he wanted on earth was to be alone.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
