“When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same… — Chica Umino Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You are not alone. You are instead lonely. There is loneliness as can exist only in the midst of numbers and numbers… — James S. Kunen Copy Share Image
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives; we also experience less of a soothing uplift from… — John T. Cacioppo Copy Share Image
“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that loneliness is necessarily a bad or unconstructive condition. My own skill at jamming time may actually be dependent… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“i am a free man— and i need my freedom. i need to be alone. i need to ponder my shame and… — henry miller Copy Share Image
“Cantor illustrated the concept of infinity for his students by telling them that there was once a man who had a hotel… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“There are no more deserts. There are no more islands. Yet there is a need for them. In order to understand the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“So you have chosen aloneness. You have chosen the security and the relative freedom of solitude, because there is no risk involved.… — Chelsea Fagan Copy Share Image
Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known...… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Every lonely person is a sign of negative relationships, every person with friends and family is a sign of adjustments. Cause the… — Bhargavi Rajendran Copy Share Image
He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it, if there were not a friend? The friend… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What you allow is what will continue. Its always better to spend more time alone than allow negative people and their opinions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
“Information does not make a philosophy, information only makes a memory, what makes a philosophy is the way ideas are rotated in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“She wanted the solitude of the cliffs. She wanted to be alone until the hurt dwindled, until it was small enough to… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or… — John Wells Copy Share Image
Go. Exit. Evacuate. Depart. Embark. Leave. Retreat. Subside. Cease. Vanish. Disappear. Fade. This is the end of my fears, worries and troubles.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When you feel all alone, and a loyal friend is hard to find, you're caught in a one way street with the… — Savage Gardien Copy Share Image
Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The world goes to sleep when it's a cold winter. All except those writers in which it naturally rains inside of them… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“simply interacting with others—playing a game, for example—offers new stimuli and helps prevent the depression that can come with solitude.” — Hector Garcia Puigcerver Copy Share Image
The night is my companion...solitude my guide…and I would be the one to hold you down, kiss you so hard, I'll take… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image