It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To me, privacy is nothing if not the freedom to be let alone, to experiment and to make mistakes, to forget and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Soul [the Real Self] and the Gnan [True Knowledge] are always present in crowds, not in solitude. There is peace in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
“T]here arises an insight, which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“This was the difference, she thought, between solitude and isolation. And now she knew something about herself she hadn’t known before. It… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon… Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude. — Max Elliott Slade Copy Share Image
Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I am always able to find that solitude. I am always able to find that peace. Which is tight. That is what… — J.I.D Copy Share Image
loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D.… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people, as well. We leave TVs on in our house. I… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity. — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you… In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
“Only in a state of solitude, when you willingly stay face to face with God, can He help you to open yourself,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
“The corner doesn't mind listening to the stupid things I say; Sometimes it's the only one keeping me from running away. And… — Margo T. Rose Copy Share Image
The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to… — Cheryl Rainfield Copy Share Image
The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where… — Molière Copy Share Image
For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories.… — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extentunwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust itwe perpetuate it within ourselves like… — EM Cioran Copy Share Image
“We must remember that loneliness is not the real enemy - alienation from ourselves is. We are never lonely because we have… — Katherine Woodward Thomas Copy Share Image