Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Anonymous 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
“Tried a lot,but can't find a companion like you my dear solitude. Let us shake our hands again.” — Sandeep Bhat Copy Share Image
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness.” — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
“Unclaimed or abandoned bodies. There could be no stronger definition of loneliness.” — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it lovely to be alone yet together? We don’t need to be out and about or even talking, just as long… — Shreya Sen-Handley Copy Share Image
If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“The intensity and excitement which accompanies moments of infatuation is frequently relative to the degree of loneliness and isolation which has been… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“loneliness is a strange sort of thing. it creeps up on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“Immediately when you arrive in Sahara, for the first or the tenth time, you notice the stillness. An incredible, absolute silence prevails… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“ONE WHO WRAPS HIMSELF God called the Prophet Muhammad Muzzammil, "The One Who Wraps Himself," and said, "Come out from under your… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; climb with me… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it's better to be alone to know how your world goes around without the help of anybody else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“At times, when loneliness seems to crush all beauty, the only way to resist is to remain open.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I enjoy all this solitude, but on the other hand I miss being loved, given the attention I need a boyfriend aaaaaaaaaaaah.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.” — Mihail Drumeş Copy Share Image
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude” — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
Nothing compares to a quiet evening alone. Just the one-two of us, who's counting on? — Paramore Copy Share Image
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
