There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Why do we love the solitude and the solitude? My dear, you need only look into your own darkness-enshrouded spirit to find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus,… — Tabish Khair Copy Share Image
“There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.” — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it’s when we’re busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where… — Molière Copy Share Image
When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Solitude and loneliness are two separate things. One you choose out of wisdom, the other out of necessity.” -Mark Miller” — Mark Miller 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
“I don't like crowds of any kind. A dinner party of more than six people is not, for me, a pleasure. I… — Clive Barker 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
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“if we don’t have experience with solitude—and this is often the case today—we start to equate loneliness and solitude.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
