I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“I lay awake listening to the rain, and at first it was as pleasant to my ear and my mind as it… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“Writing is no more than wending a way in an attempt to restore all of the paths that had been cut-short, headed… — Mary Cappello Copy Share Image
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others. — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But I have thought of you often during these holidays and imagined how quiet you must be in your lonely fort among… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“True solitude is the home of the person, false solitude the refuge of the individualist.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
