“There is nothing more terminal for the human spirit, than loneliness.” — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Alone isn't a bad place to be, especially when it's the alternative to distrust and unhappiness, but” — Carolyn Brown Copy Share Image
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Being lonely and loving your own company are two very different things. Don't ever get them mixed up.” — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
“It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American.” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. — John Miller Copy Share Image
You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrate things and find God… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to be in solitude with yourself, listening to your own heartbeat and acknowledging the brilliance God created as you.” — Valerie Winrow Copy Share Image
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." [ Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak , 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)]” — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Eventually we find that we no longer need silence. We no longer need solitude. We no longer even need words. We can… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Connections are difficult. There’s an irritation in being among people who’ve already found their connection, and finding that those left who haven’t… — Jhonen Vásquez Copy Share Image