How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake, a challenge that seeks the password, a heliograph flashed from a… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, alienation, loneliness, emptiness, and meaninglessness are the fruits of living as an isolated subject admist a multitude of lifeless objects. Although… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“As a child, a teen, a young adult, I developed a firm belief in my solitude, the not-novel concept that we are… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down.… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
I love nature, I really do. I love the great outdoors, I love the concept of quiet, peaceful solitude shared only with… — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
“I was born free, and that I might live in freedom I chose the solitude of the fields; in the trees of… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
“But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to a few on this Earth, and whom only… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“there is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“Four billion people on this earth but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is… — Henri Nouwen 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
“You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I am used to solitude and it is used to me. We understand each other, me and solitude. I don’t get annoyed… — Debbie Johnson Copy Share Image
“Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Rural solitude, which provides ample themes for the intellect and sweet occupations innumerable for the minor sentiments, often denies a ready object… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If… — Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Her face had the usual fulness of expression which is developed by a life of solitude. Where the eyes of a multitude… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Every Person Needs Time Alone, Whether They're Introverted Or Extroverted, Single Or In A Relationship, Young Or Old. Solitude Is Time For… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a strange sort of thing. It creeps on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark, strokes… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Solitude can become your most meaningful companion and it can assist you in being a more giving person in your spiritual partnerships.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Solitude is one thing and being alone is another. Solitude can be isolation, an escape, an unwanted thing; but to be alone… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
