There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes. — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“...the natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk imagine. They see and think… — Julian Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It feels as if being alone is the hardest thing to go threw, its not, if we spent more time being happy… — Xavier Zayas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a moment of solitude is just a faded sorrow. You remember fringes of it, but forgot most of it. Moved on… — Crestless Wave Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Nothing is therefore more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, forced by its very nature to unfold, nourished by the fantastic visions of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“It is a comfort to me to know that above the steam and filth of human lowlands there is a higher, brighter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“There's not much to say about loneliness, for it's not a broad subject. Any child, alone in her room, can journey across… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
How would Jonathan Lethem have obtained such a stellar endorsement for 'The Fortress of Solitude' from Michael Chabon, if not for the… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
“No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each… — Pema Chödrön 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… — Amanda Copy Share Image
A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“when one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one’s life, one had to keep on striding forward—or… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.” — Robert H. Baker Copy Share Image
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
“Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When I read the script for 'A Quiet Place', I immediately wanted to be a part of the film. It is such… — Millicent Simmonds Copy Share Image
The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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