“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Go. Exit. Evacuate. Depart. Embark. Leave. Retreat. Subside. Cease. Vanish. Disappear. Fade. This is the end of my fears, worries and troubles.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness. — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“[Slipped beneath the minnow Pea front door] Nollopton Monty No-way 6 Insane woman named Ella: Retreat is what we want. Go away.… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet” — Strider Marcus Jones Copy Share Image
“Unashamed, accustomed to solitude, he began to enjoy his near-invisibility. From his position at the edge of the school around him, he… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“One moment longer," whispered solitude and the summer moon, "stay with us: all is truly quiet now; for another quarter of an… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes.… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it's best to keep quiet. Silence can say so much without you ever having to say a single word. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
