“There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. —Sir Thomas Browne” — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“WE ARE FRITTERING AWAY TIME AND MONEY IN A MULTIPLICITY OF CONVENTIONS, conferences, and retreats, when the real need is to go… — Studd, C. T. (Charles Thomas Copy Share Image
“At work, cubicle three in the ladies’ cloakroom had become my retreat. There, I could hide away and silently sob whenever I… — Angie Langley Copy Share Image
“All you need is a little space and a little time—a place to work, and some time to do it; a little… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude… — Leigh Hunt 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.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I spent years of being a ghost / Unsure of where home is anymore / I tell them I feel nothing /… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Descend lower, descend only Into the world of perpetual solitude, World not world, but that which is not world, Internal darkness, deprivation… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced… — Charles M. Schulz 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
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the… — Feist Copy Share Image
