In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Solitude is the machine through which time can be converted into products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“In torment, there was release. In the darkness, there was light. In solitude, there were companions.” — C.C. Humphreys Copy Share Image
Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“But perhaps these are the very hours during which solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Totally sucked into a whirlpool of silence. However, don’t want to fight the feeling.. Just learning how to enjoy the company of… — Sarah Adel Copy Share Image
When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“in his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I still find it difficult to cope with the solitude of writing. I often crave the feedback of working with a team. — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
