“This isn’t a story of great romance or of true love. It’s simply a story of being lonely and how comforting it… — T.E. Carter Copy Share Image
“Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other’s presence with a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“Solitude, which is one of the most agreeable sensations of the natural man, is one of the most painful and alarming sensations… — William J. Dawson Copy Share Image
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own.… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“I had no problem spending Monday through Friday alone, Saturdays were neutral, but each Sunday had to be reckoned with. There's solitude… — Chloe Aridjis Copy Share Image
“If you do not know where to go in the middle of a bridge, make the bridge as your destination and combine… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
“Being alone is not the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When your eyes meet my solitude Silence ripens, a fruit, And sleep turns into storm. Forbidden doors fling open And water learns… — Joumana Haddad Copy Share Image
First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure… — Andrea Seigel Copy Share Image
You can be surrounded by many people but still feel quite lonely if you don't have strong connections and if you feel… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Real relief from loneliness requires the cooperation of at least one other person, and yet the more chronic our loneliness becomes, the… — John T. Cacioppo Copy Share Image
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also,… — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness - an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil! Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from which you issued. Although all… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
