“I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time. — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet. — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
I have lived alone, by myself, for many years, so I feel I am my best company. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
Life beyond the crowd may maintain peace in mind, but creates loneliness which kills spirit softly. — Nishchal Ningleku Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest discoveries you could actually discover in life is the treasure of solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Until you experience real loneliness, you shall never know what real loneliness is. So many people feel miserable and lonely just because… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am plac'd in my philosophy, and fancy myself some… — David Hume Copy Share Image
She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Solitude is part of my life, and I don't mind that. I like it. I love it. I don't allow loneliness to… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
“The strange fortune of my lynx brought him to live in an artificial environment, a human community utterly foreign to him. His… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Solitude is an interesting companion. It is both enemy and friend, comforter and tormentor. I spent a lot of time in Dun… — Jennifer Fallon Copy Share Image
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude that gives everything back its value.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everybody wants something. Most want a house, food clothes and a stable relationship. All I want is cocaine. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“This burgeoning interest in exclusive green spaces bespoke a desire for solitude in the urban landscape.” — Karen R. Jones & John Wills Copy Share Image
“dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You Arent Crazy, you are just lonely. and loneliness is a hell of a drug. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people. — Olly Alexander Copy Share Image
Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
