The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The state of being alone is truly invigorating. One should get accustomed with that in a slow and steady manner. However, it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, the other characteristic of modern man, is even more basic than emptiness and loneliness. For being “hollow” and lonely would not… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In silence, we have an opportunity to reflect, listen, and gain new insights about ourselves. In silence, we can think, feel, and… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Solitary writers come out of nowhere and do not belong anywhere. They are not domesticated or socialized, not as writers. Their subject… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“It was one of Emily's earliest pleasures to ramble among the scenes of nature; nor was it in the soft and glowing… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Claire knew the flavor of solitude. It was cold as spring water, and not all could drink it; for some it was… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Solitude my solace, wrapped around me like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books and I can sing as loud as I… — Jeannine Hall Gailey Copy Share Image
A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Copy Share Image
“Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone. Alone, alone! But… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“one’s neighbors, and think about God—if these are the things one has decided are worth pursuing. But it is difficult to accomplish… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough!… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
“I believe solitude to be not only the unavoidable human condition but also the sensible human preference." ― Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision:… — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Being isolated at times doesn't always mean that you want to distance yourself from others; it simply means that you need some… — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image
“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not… — William Drummond Copy Share Image
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
“I reveled in solitude. If Lily wanted to believe there was a somebody out there just for her, I wanted to believe… — Rachel Cohn David Levithan Copy Share Image
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