I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
“I’m watching the rainbows rising from the far water place lost in the artificial light of midnight. I’m watching birds flying hither… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“Crowd is a gold mine, you can find many treasures over there; solitude is a gold mind, you can find many treasures… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood. Here between sea and sea in a fairy wood,… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your… — Alice Koller Copy Share Image
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“No, no, sometimes a person feels to be alone." "If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much." "Without a… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
“For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have to run and hide. What I do at home sometimes is, I listen to a CD of the roughness… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on,… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
“There is a sort of light surrounding Abel, something pure and strong radiates from him no matter where he is or what… — Knausgaard Copy Share Image
“I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually… — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your… — R.J. Ellory Copy Share Image
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
To have any sort of community is so, so important for humans. I think that I forget that sometimes because I definitely… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.” — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It was never a gift; it was refuge. It was his hole. A coffin he crawled into. And now it’s like the… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“No place for illusions here. The beat doesn't stop solitude, it doesn't cure pain, you can't telephone it - it's simply a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
