Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns. — Lionel Johnson Copy Share Image
SOMETIMES IT's better to be alone… you will not expect,regret,get hurt…and cry… — Jackee Copy Share Image
By all means use some time to be alone, salute thyself, see what thy soul doth wear. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. — Anna Neagle Copy Share Image
“Conception takes place when a man gets together with his creator in solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
What you allow is what will continue. Its always better to spend more time alone than allow negative people and their opinions… — Anonymous 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
“I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it, if there were not a friend? The friend… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
When you feel all alone, and a loyal friend is hard to find, you're caught in a one way street with the… — Savage Gardien Copy Share Image
Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach… — Hugh Reginald Haweis 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
It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation,… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“At bottom, for me, the act of writing is a sort of dialogue with God. I say with God, but I am… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image