For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
“Do not worry solitude is friendly at least it is more bearable than the company of hypocrites” — Yasser Kashef Copy Share Image
When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one… — Julian Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I chose this path for solitude, not realizing the the hobo life is a very sociable lifestyle...” — G Johanson Copy Share Image
“It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“My aloneness had never bothered me; I hadn't even been aware of it. But now it overwhelmed me. The awareness washed over… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
