Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“She has always said that talking makes everyone feel better. He says talking is the equivalent of grooming. The tongue and fingers… — Colin McAdam Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a moment of solitude is just a faded sorrow. You remember fringes of it, but forgot most of it. Moved on… — Crestless Wave Copy Share Image
“I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“There are no more deserts. There are no more islands. Yet there is a need for them. In order to understand the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of… — James Jones Copy Share Image
I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together....… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
