Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness -- an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
If you're constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what's on your phone, solitude seems kind… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“in college there is no time to commune with one’s thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think.… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“I love the stillness of the wood; I love the music of the rill: I love the couch in pensive mood Upon… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“Relationship Time to Aloneness." Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness… — Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.” — Wayne Cordeiro Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“Not loneliness, but solitude. Not suffering, but endurance, the discovery of grim kinship with the rocks and sky. And the finding here… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image