“I hear You saying to me: "I will give you what you desire. I will lead you into solitude. I will lead… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human… — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“Observation had always meant more to me than interaction...My sole gift or talent, I believe now, was that places could impress themselves… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer. — Will Self Copy Share Image
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Facing the truth can hurt when in solitude. The reflection gained is greater even when you don't share any relation. The satisfaction… — Jackie Habenicht Copy Share Image
“I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I shivered in those solitudes when I heard the voice of the salt in the desert.” — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“lonely and isolated people who feel their solitude more intensely within the busy life of the streets. They are what George Gissing… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
“Rural solitude, which provides ample themes for the intellect and sweet occupations innumerable for the minor sentiments, often denies a ready object… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
