We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“Loneliness was the price of the quest. I don't belong to the people who cannot live alone” — Mies Van Der Rohe Copy Share Image
Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God” — Fulton Sheen Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The windows let in a perfect light, a vibrant light such as you get in the north, where a kind of grey… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally… — Tonya Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence.… — Hwang Sŏk-yŏng Copy Share Image
“Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time. It is through solitude that you can convert your… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“She continued her own studies, principally attending to German, and to Literature; and every Sunday she went alone to the German and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
