“...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.” — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We are the sons… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude. — Dakota Johnson Copy Share Image
Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
“Worse, this vast sense of loss … without the ability to trust – anyone. Without that, what do I see in the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“We are all, in the last analysis, alone. And this basic state of solitude is not something we have any choice about.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“xxx each of us carries his or her own solitude. We are invisible and we cannot be touched.” — Sean Stewart Copy Share Image
To have any sort of community is so, so important for humans. I think that I forget that sometimes because I definitely… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The thought of attention made me want to hide in a closet. I wasn't a kid who liked attention. I liked solitude… — Daria Werbowy Copy Share Image
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
