“Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them. Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
“There are voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. —RALPH WALDO… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all… — Stuart Woods Copy Share Image
We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“I walked along singing, for when I am happy I am always humming to myself like every man who has no friend… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I hate all electronic toys: cell phones, e-mail, PalmPilots, handheld Global Positioning System equipment, and the whole raft of gadgets that intrude… — David Skibbins Copy Share Image
The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and… — Stefan Merrill Block Copy Share Image
“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more." ( Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to step outside to be alone to think about where we are and where we're heading in life. To… — Brigitte Nicole Copy Share Image
“Emotion is weakness. It sensitizes you to the trivial and blinds you to the important. Only in detachment can decisions be made… — Joseph R. Lallo Copy Share Image
“Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural.… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto Copy Share Image
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The loneliness of flight is not entirely overwhelmed by cabin movies, the drinks, the Gemütlichkeit of shoulder-to-shoulder life.” — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“All lovers desire solitude in order to possess each other more completely. They create for each other a new universe inhabited by… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“in his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Loneliness sometimes help us to know how farther we can look out for ourself when no one is around, and to help… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I guess I always need some kind of solitude to get to that place where I am open enough and have zero… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
