Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
I highly recommend setting aside pockets of time during each day for solitude. You might have only five or ten minutes, but… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“We are familiar with people who seek out solitude: penitents, failures, saints, or prophets. They retreat to deserts, preferably, where they live… — Patrick Suskind Copy Share Image
“There is a quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself.” — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Some kind of solitude is measured out in you; You think you know me but you haven't got a clue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
My watchful animal instinct to avoid people is almost overpowering. — Samantha Abeel Copy Share Image
“When loneliness hits hard, pour yourself a cup of coffee and sit quietly. In time, the stillness becomes a friend, and your… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude,… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“He knows solitude. He knows its pleasure and its power. He knows it is a home you can occupy.” — Deborah Willis Copy Share Image
“As we embrace a technology’s gifts, we usually fail to consider what they ask from us in return—the subtle, hardly noticeable payments… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
