“If the only point of jail is isolation, then I have served a full sentence.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...]… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sometimes, You Need To Be Alone. Sometimes Not Even Your Best Friend Need To Know. Sometimes You Just Need To Put Up… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“We should learn early to enjoy being in solitude, because even in death, we are in solitude.” — John Joclebs Bassey Copy Share Image
In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
“For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline toward the religion of solitude. –Aldous Huxley” — Ella James Copy Share Image
I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image