I'm okay with being alone in crowded places. People just feel more awkward about me more than I feel about myself. I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“He had learned early on the trick of living separately in a crowd, private in his mind when his body could not… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“No, solitude did not trouble her. She could spend long minutes gazing out the window, hours listening to the BBC on the… — Daphne Kalotay Copy Share Image
Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“She day-dreams just as I do. She is addicted to her solitude just as I am. She loves watching the rain-drops fall… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by… — Sasha Cagen Copy Share Image
“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Most of us are more tired than we know at the soul level. We are teetering on the brink of dangerous exhaustion,… — Ruth Haley Barton Copy Share Image
“The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many… — José Antonio Bowen Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is painful; Solitude is peaceful. Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to respect others in their… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke, Another one bought from the store. If he lights one, his mind's lit up Another one burns… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On that day, you taught me that solitude is painful, I understand very well now. I have family, and I have friends,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“It's good on the other side, but it's good on your side too. Enjoy it there. The loneliness is harder, and the… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Loneliness, Cacioppo points out, has nothing to do with how many people are physically around us, but has everything to do with… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“It was as if I were powerless to resist the temptation; my senses were overcome. I could hear the emptiness, and taste… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and… — Javad Alizadeh Copy Share Image
The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves… A writer… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it.… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“The cage wasn't insignificant in the shaping of my wings, stillness is an experience only the deep souls can go. A quiet… — Nikki rowe Copy Share Image
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Loneliness. It's a thing, you know, not a feeling. A big, ugly thing that moves in and takes over until you forget… — Mary Beth Miller Copy Share Image
There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“In order to work with difficult outer circumstances, we need to gather our inner strength. If even ten or twenty minutes of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
![“Most of us are more tired than we know at the soul level. We are teetering on the brink of dangerous exhaustion, and we cannot do anything else until we have gotten some rest...we can't really engage [any spiritual disciplines] until solitude becomes a place of rest for us rather than another…” quote by Ruth Haley Barton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/02f/ruth-haley-barton-21489_religion_most-of-us-are-more-tired-than-we-know-a_856708.jpg)
