Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal… — Fred Van Lente Copy Share Image
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people.… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings — John Keats Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“But—for good reasons rooted deeply in the nature of the person and of personal relationships—his preferred way is to speak, to communicate:… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“And it was during this period that Madeleine fully understood how the lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all… — John Braine Copy Share Image
“There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“ Loneliness A recent study showed that 13.5 percent of college students are severely lonely. Overall, they felt that they were to… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence.… — Hwang Sŏk-yŏng Copy Share Image
Then what am I - the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image