Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church.… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation—the degree to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In… — Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Copy Share Image
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth Copy Share Image
“The farm is a base of operations–a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for reflection is an essential ingredient in… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds,… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood. But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time! — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of… — Seneca the Younger 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 my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of… — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and… — Javad Alizadeh Copy Share Image
