“For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralized enemy who is advancing in utter disorder.” — Eric Frank Russell Copy Share Image
“Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness?” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“True solitude is the home of the person, false solitude the refuge of the individualist.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion. — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In solitude... one can think and feel deeply without interruption. I have definitely grown far closer to myself rather than to others… — Nancy Crow Copy Share Image
What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely,… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“A quiet corner where you meet yourself is so valuable that you get mental clarity over there that can make the best… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I am essence of Rose Solitude my cheeks are laced with cognac my hips sealed with five satin nails I carry dreams… — Jayne Cortez Copy Share Image
Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“To a Boy Boy, you are a hidden watering place under the trees where, as the day darkens, gentle beasts with calm… — Mutsuo Takahashi Copy Share Image
“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“But perhaps these are the very hours during which solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perceptive and valuable personal explorations of time alone include A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland, Party of One by Anneli Rufus,… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“The way one is envisaged by other people - what easier way is there of envisaging oneself? There is a fatalism in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Wandering alone in the barrenness of foolishness, I hear the drip-drip of Wisdom and smile.” — Martin Cosgrove Copy Share Image
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“i will forever be colliding with a billion unnamed undiscovered stars, each of us on our own orbital paths.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I… — Mark Richards Copy Share Image
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Proust called these moments of unity between writer and reader “that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
“Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with… — Elyse Draper Copy Share Image
I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
