In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. — John Miller Copy Share Image
“And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The state of being alone is truly invigorating. One should get accustomed with that in a slow and steady manner. However, it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself” — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“I think it was the lavatory to which I retired- a perfect place for quiet meditation, where no one could possibly pursue… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Cuddle I cuddle you i cuddle me, i cuddle the loneliness, in the solitude in which you left me, your scent is… — Ivonne Yáñez Saba Copy Share Image
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
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