“A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush… — Freema Agyeman Copy Share Image
“I preferred solitude anyway; it was the medium in which I had been raised, in which I swam comfortably.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Solitude would unveil the strength of your mind which has the capacity to improvise the level of indeed self confidence and hope.… — Steffi Stare Copy Share Image
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“It would be wise to be concerned about the introvert who is deprived of solitude. Is she neglecting herself due to depression?… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“The oaks stand - quite still - so still that the lichen loves them...such solace and solitude seventy-nine miles thick cannot be… — Jefferies Richard 1848-1887 Copy Share Image
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Solitude is never lonely. It is rather a sanctuary where one learns to draw wisdom from the company of self .” — Zohreh Ghahremani Copy Share Image
“Peri disliked these dinner parties, which went on late into the night and often left her with a migraine the next day.… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.” — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I don't think you have the ability to be completely quiet. Ever.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
“Have (with the help of convention) found the solution of everything in ease and the easiest side of ease; but it is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Nook people are those of us who need solitude, but also the sound of someone puttering in the next room.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
