As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
“Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.” — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
“And by it we enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. Only discord can come of the attempt to share solitude.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your… — R.J. Ellory Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired;… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. —Sir Thomas Browne” — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.” — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“It is useless to try to make peace with ourselves by being pleased with everything we have done. In order to settle… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“All lovers desire solitude in order to possess each other more completely. They create for each other a new universe inhabited by… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back. . .… — Dennis Patrick Slattery Copy Share Image
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
