Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You never get used to lonely. 'Cos when you are alone, the presence of loneliness is always new. — Missing Muffin Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is an occasion wherein you decide between meeting yourself or a stranger.” — Harpreet Singh Nanda Copy Share Image
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“We can’t imagine deserts without camel caravans and we can’t imagine wisdom without the teachings of solitude and silence!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extentunwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust itwe perpetuate it within ourselves like… — EM Cioran Copy Share Image
I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories.… — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
People think being alone makes you lonely but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest… — Amanda Copy Share Image
“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“He hadn't left any of the stretches that he'd done of me. But he did leave a sketch of my rocking chair.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. How commonplace and stupid it would be… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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