“Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth… — Bonnie Baker Copy Share Image
'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
“Long have I dwelt forgotten here In pining woe and dull despair; This place of solitude and gloom Must be my dungeon… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes. — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude. — Theodor Storm Copy Share Image
“I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.” — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth? — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
