There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in… — Tibullus Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The intensity and excitement which accompanies moments of infatuation is frequently relative to the degree of loneliness and isolation which has been… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the biggest enemy of a human. Cause it is more than the enemy. When a person becomes lonely from inside,… — Salman Aziz Copy Share Image
Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
“In solitude we can come to the realization that we are not driven together but brought together. In solitude we come to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one… — Julian Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“All those summer drives, no matter where I was going, to a person, a project, an adventure, or home, alone in the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely… — Shawn Thompson Copy Share Image
“He entered a confectioner's shop to rest, once. He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Fine. If you want to stay in that chair and feel sorry for yourself for the rest of your life, who am… — Sorcha MacMurrough Copy Share Image
Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it lovely to be alone yet together? We don’t need to be out and about or even talking, just as long… — Shreya Sen-Handley Copy Share Image
Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women… — Hannah Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“They, whether steel kings or Bonapartes, cannot, after a certain age, endure solitude. For it is the solitude, even though strictly relative… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy,… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the stage terrifies me,” I confessed. “But being here alone like this, it’s freeing.” Solitude can be freeing,” he said.” — Lesa Howard Copy Share Image
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music.… — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
If you're constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what's on your phone, solitude seems kind… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and… — Dalit Orbach Copy Share Image
“One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that… — George Bird Grinnell Copy Share Image
Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy. Solitude is also a place to receive great ideas and creative ideas from God.… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp… — Shyza Chaudhry Copy Share Image
Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
