Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“IN THE LIFE we generally lead there is very little solitude. Even when we are alone our lives are crowded by so… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a very special place. It isn’t always easy to see the truth of Wilson’s statement, but over the course of… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a wind… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I wasn't afraid of being alone, but I was afraid of what people would think about my solitary state. People, even well-intentioned… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“I become a transparent eyeball,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Nature.” “I am nothing; I see all.” Lord Byron called it “the… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Writing is no more than wending a way in an attempt to restore all of the paths that had been cut-short, headed… — Mary Cappello Copy Share Image
“An Egyptian monk, after fifteen years of complete solitude, received a packet of letters from his family and friends. He did not… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
“You can be a rich person alone. You can be a smart person alone. But you cannot be a complete person alone.… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
When you are alone you are not alone, you are simply lonely and there is a tremendous difference between loneliness and aloneness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
“I hastened,..., back to London,...; for here you have the advantage of solitude without its disadvantage, since you may be alone and… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives… — Tesla Copy Share Image
“Consider A Move The steady time of being unknown, in solitude, without friends, is not a steadiness that sustains. I hear your… — Michael Ryan Copy Share Image
“How could the prisoner break his chains? I pictured a world, a righteous world, with no sin, no bonds, no social obligations;… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“it doesn't hurt to be alone sometimes. to go out on a cold night and walk for a while. it might be… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
“We’re the quiet woman at the end of the third-floor hallway, whose trash is always tidy, who smiles brightly in the stairwell… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“There are extremes within any population, but on average, at least among young adults, those who feel lonely actually spend no more… — John T. Cacioppo Copy Share Image
But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know it was… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to talk about God and it's something I have a faith in. But I feel his presence more in… — Kip Moore Copy Share Image
The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you… — David Wong Copy Share Image
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also… — Roderick Nash 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
