The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
“‟Whatever we may do or attempt, despite the embrace and transports of love, the hunger of the lips, we are always alone.… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood. But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Let me now raise my song of glory. Heaven be praised for solitude. Let me be alone. Let me cast and throw… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Often people request prayers for deliverance, inner healing, or physical healing. But more frequently they simply want a man or woman to… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“A community is not a place where 'desert fathers' are testing themselves - more and more, harder and harder, each on his… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah,… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
“I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For solitude confers a twofold advantage on the intellectually superior person; first of all, being on his own, and the second, not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I’ve always judged places and times by how lonely they felt. The entire Midwest, for example, strikes me as horrifically lonely, Indiana… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
“MUSIC: Take me by the hand; it's so easy for you, Angel, for you are the road even while being immobile. You… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation.… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual… — William James Copy Share Image
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“You can’t receive self-assurance or esteem, it’s something you just give yourself. Nothing in the world can complete you, other than yourself.… — Manimal Copy Share Image
“Life is an island in an ocean of solitude and seclusion. Life is an island, rocks are its desires, trees its dreams,… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps a kinship among qualities; one draws another along with it; and the biographer should here call attention to the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
