“TO do much clear thinking a man must arrange for regular periods of solitude when he can concentrate and indulge his imagination… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
It's not bad to be alone, not having to worry about being hurt or just everything around, when your alone you have… — Ali Copy Share Image
Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“My story and my stories are all, in one or another, the same, tales of solitude and the grand pursuit of connection,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Everyone experiences the feelings of sadness and loneliness. We might rue our lack of companionship, but some people present a desperate need… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Dawn is such a private hour, don’t you think? Such a solitary hour. One always hears that said of midnight, but I… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen years' slavery.… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to a fellow evangelical, McHugh's sense of spiritual failure would make… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Wow, today is such a lovely day to avoid all human contact and remain in the comfort of my own loneliness and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Overscheduled children lose the space to simply be with themselves and learn the art of being alone. In our noisy, busy world,… — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Many of us live, if not alone, then in emotionally inadequate relationships that do not recognize or honour our deepest needs. Isolation… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Breaking apart from someone you love very much can be unbearably painful, but finding yourself again can be a beautiful thing if… — Grace Chatto Copy Share Image
Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
'A Perfect Place' is character-driven. The director for that wanted a couple of identifiable themes with a bunch of variations. That is… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“Writing too was a mighty consumer of energy, besides a task one often went to with reluctance - not solely on account… — Frank Sargeson Copy Share Image
“Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth… — Bonnie Baker Copy Share Image
The price for living the life I have -- for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone,… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
“After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I would say that only the lonely understands another lonely person\'s suffering, but I\'d have to add the one that knew joy… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“Whoseoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that the light that a man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A room is not just a room; it's more than that. This is where you live, it's where you sleep and it's… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
