“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to step outside, get some fresh air, and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to… — Camilia Copy Share Image
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Lonely isn't a feeling when you're alone, lonely is a feeling when no one cares. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It sounds ironic to say that the cure for loneliness is aloneness. I don’t mean that you should just make yourself more… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to be alone... We need to stay away from people.. Only for us to know, how they meant to… — Janet Reolope Copy Share Image
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself,… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“For many who are alone, because their partner has died or they have separated from them, a sudden, unfamiliar emptiness is the… — Janett Menzel Copy Share Image
Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“We see much more of this loneliness now. It's paradoxical that that where people are the most closely crowded in the big… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
“His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
