Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky.… — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“If we seek solitary retreat, you will be more often refreshed.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience. — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.” — Schiller Goethe Hebel et al Copy Share Image
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralized enemy who is advancing in utter disorder.” — Eric Frank Russell Copy Share Image
Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“Nothing stays forever, nobody does rather. All the things, people will leave you one fine day and you’ll be a wanderer in… — Nupur Walia Copy Share Image
Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. — Gautama Buddha 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
Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
