“suffering in the midst of the vast city from solitude so acute that not even the narcotic of late-night television talk shows… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure… — Andrea Seigel Copy Share Image
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from… — Georges Lefebvre Copy Share Image
Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a… — Anna Neagle Copy Share Image
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The Flash: I often come here to run and to think. But, today, I don’t want to think—I just want to run.” — Tom Taylor Copy Share Image
Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for… — Anne Ortlund Copy Share Image
“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“All these years, her sole objective had been to keep still and hope no one would ever know. She had been a… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it's the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“...books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
