“...the Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“One becomes accustomed to one's solitude, and it begins to seem rather phony to try to reach out.” — Louisa Hall Copy Share Image
When you're wearing headphones and you feel like everyone is calling you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
“There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night! — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude that gives everything back its value. At a certain level of wealth, the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There's this indescribable ache that swarms beneath my skin on random days and I am always saying 'fuck off' but it never… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already… — Adeline Yen Mah Copy Share Image
There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
