“When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.” — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“first strategy was known to the sages as the Ritual of Solitude.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon.” — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Too tired for company, You seek a solitude You are too tired to fill.” — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“Whenever you make up your mind to go into solitude, you must decide first of all what you want to go and… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you. — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others,… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Not loneliness, but solitude. Not suffering, but endurance, the discovery of grim kinship with the rocks and sky. And the finding here… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We are the sons… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of… — James Jones Copy Share Image
When you meditate let your soul wander and seek out the peace and harmony for when you awaken form your slumber…Your eyes… — George Trujillo 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
The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image