“If you were born alone to die alone - socializing is not a must - when you haven't built a society within… — Kangoma Kindembo Copy Share Image
“this is not a time of retreat but rather resurgence. This is not a time for compromise but rather courage.” — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer. — Will Self Copy Share Image
I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set… — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Most religions have always appreciated the extreme power of concentrated thought directed toward the benefit of others, especially when that person is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
“I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your… — Alice Koller Copy Share Image
“It was one of Emily's earliest pleasures to ramble among the scenes of nature; nor was it in the soft and glowing… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image
I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In silence, we have an opportunity to reflect, listen, and gain new insights about ourselves. In silence, we can think, feel, and… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Solitary writers come out of nowhere and do not belong anywhere. They are not domesticated or socialized, not as writers. Their subject… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“After chopping off all the arms that reached out to me; after boarding up all the windows and doors; after filling all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
I'm not going to talk to you for awhile. I need you to miss me. I need you to appreciate having me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering. — Townes Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity!” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same… — Helen Rowland 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
