I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your… — R.J. Ellory Copy Share Image
Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“...Bhutan all but bases its identity upon its loneliness, and its refusal to b assimilated into India, or Tibet, or Nepal. Vietnam,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“The companionship which Adam the second is seeking is not to be found in the de-personalized regimentation of the army, in the… — Joseph B. Soloveitchik Copy Share Image
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God. — Matthew West Copy Share Image
“if we don’t have experience with solitude—and this is often the case today—we start to equate loneliness and solitude.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid. — Brad Mehldau Copy Share Image
The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
