“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in… — Gary Snyder 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
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude,… — Mary Balogh 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
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Taking solitude in stride was a sign of strength and of a willingness to take care of myself. This meant - among… — Jenni Ferrari-Adler Copy Share Image
I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude. — Kristin Cashore 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
The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrate things and find God… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
