“It scares us more than anything except death. Being alone. Our fear of solitude is so ingrained that given the choice of… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
“Do you think the solitude in which I live has a more amusing decor than any other solitude? Do you think it… — Scott to Zelda 1930 Copy Share Image
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes… — Nigel Slater Copy Share Image
“Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Lead me, save me from my solitude. Say you want me with you,… — Charles Hart Copy Share Image
It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts… — Wanda Koop Copy Share Image
“No, solitude did not trouble her. She could spend long minutes gazing out the window, hours listening to the BBC on the… — Daphne Kalotay Copy Share Image
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.” — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Copy Share Image
“If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
