There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
“Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“But if you learn to really sit with that loneliness and embrace it as the gift that it is—an opportunity to get… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We can fend off loneliness by being accessible to those around us who are different from us… too often we try to… — Kristen M. Oaks Copy Share Image
Quotes are what you hold on to when you are lonely. Because for every situation you go through, there's a quote giving… — Shair Mir Copy Share Image
“There are times i wish i was a master magician so i could disappear into the folds of time, without consequence, without… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“I've questioned this goddamn place since i could talk, some of us have depth we can't quite understand until we are much… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The peculiarities of my early education are one way in which being from the West has set me apart. A man in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Solitude takes time, and caregivers to children have no time. Our children demand attention and need care. They ask questions and parents… — Gary Paul Nabhan Copy Share Image
“The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is no final solution to loneliness until you recognize that you need the resources which are in yourself to enpy, within… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
“Nina could scarcely believe a house could be as quiet as the one on Washington Street. Although there were moments when she… — Jean Elson Copy Share Image
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Those great wars which the body wages with the mind a slave to it, in the solitude of the bedroom against the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown,… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Shortly after Ryan and I broke up, I returned to the solitude I normally enjoyed, appreciating the simplicity of my life because… — Tracey Garvis Graves Copy Share Image
![“Nina could scarcely believe a house could be as quiet as the one on Washington Street. Although there were moments when she missed her children, her main response to living apart from her husband was relief…[H]er current solitude was not just a respite, it was a time to contemplate her future…” quote by Jean Elson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e9f/jean-elson-62560_adultery_nina-could-scarcely-believe-a-house-coul_2744625.jpg)
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