A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“When you are surrounded by the people who do not see the world as you see it, you will be the loneliest… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Whether in a moment of peace and quiet or exhilarating excitement, savor every minute of every place. — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way… — Juliette Fay Copy Share Image
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Long have I dwelt forgotten here In pining woe and dull despair; This place of solitude and gloom Must be my dungeon… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
“Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose single… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
“In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
