I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet'… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
“it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to understand why my mother preferred solitude during the times that burdened her heart.” — Sue Lynn Tan Copy Share Image
I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude. In my fear to be… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
