“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation,… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“You must not let yourself be misled, in your solitude, by the fact that there is something in you which wants to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“Indeed, he could not be long in discovering that people beyond a suspicion of unbalance, or not obviously coveting the moment's arrest… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Funny how it works. People enter in our lives when we least need it, when we're already content, maybe even happy, with… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I suppose a lot of people don't understand that one of the things that drew me to hunting was the peace and… — Shawn Michaels Copy Share Image
He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Okay. ‘Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All these years, her sole objective had been to keep still and hope no one would ever know. She had been a… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest;… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“The theologian Paul Tillich wrote that "loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude." Because the borderline finds solitude… — Jerold J. Kreisman Copy Share Image
“The sort of decision arrived at by saints and madmen is not revealed to others. It is forged little by little, in… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself. If this sounds paradoxical, remember Rilke’s admonition:… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X.… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“In my old age (smirk), I seem to have become a creature of habit. I have order, schedules, quirky little activities I dig… — Rebecca Bloom Copy Share Image
Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills … There is nowhere that a person can… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste. In solitude, they will discover the love… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“Not to mention the loneliness. And at the same time, the crowdedness. The never being really alone, just to think, to rest… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image