Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty . Seek solitude. If your life is well ordered your health will not suffer.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me,… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
“There is a difference in the lone, who are free to walk as fast and far as they like, and the lonely,… — Brian S Woods Copy Share Image
“It’s not your fault that your brain is reduced to the size of one neuron and that it itself is being annihilated… — Danka V Copy Share Image
“Flee, my friend, into thy solitude—and thither, where a rough strong breeze bloweth. It is not thy lot to be a fly-flap.—… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human situation in which I keep myself company.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Now the voices and the sound of movement were gone, and the stream could be heard running quietly under its banks. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you… — Rilke Letters to a Young Poet Copy Share Image
“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is at least in my experience, the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Karamakate says, "to become a warrior, every Cohiuano man must leave everything behind and go into the jungle, guided only by his… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never… — Vicente Aleixandre Copy Share Image
But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected… — Samuel D. Warren Copy Share Image
I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The moment when you think that you are the loneliest person in the world, you close your eyes and feel ,it is… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
People think being alone makes you lonely, But I dont think thats true. Being surrounded by wrong people is the loneliest thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test… — Naomi Uemura Copy Share Image
