What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown. — Tony Hatch Copy Share Image
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I was alone in that room. Of course, there were bodies all around, but they were all dead. They were dead when… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“He had reached the point where all he wanted on earth was to be alone.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity!” — Larry Niven 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
“Most of us are more tired than we know at the soul level. We are teetering on the brink of dangerous exhaustion,… — Ruth Haley Barton Copy Share Image
Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not… — William Drummond Copy Share Image
“Without solitude, we cannot fix the scattered pieces of our plans, hopes, wishes together.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
