There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. —Sir Thomas Browne” — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Social hierarchy doesn’t hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.” — Elyse Draper Copy Share Image
Feeling lonely means you have been alienated from yourself. Reconnect before you are lost. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own.… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
“Samoća nije živeti sam, samoća je kad nismo sposobni da pravimo društvo nekome ili nečemu što se nalazi duboko u nama, samoća… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness... At work, they regarded her as a person apart... They imagined there must be more… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
