“The late afternoon Sun threw amber and gold across the deep body of the ocean, breaking into unseen luminance across the horizon.… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people. — Olly Alexander 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
“I take pleasure in solitude, many see me as distant but only few know it's when i'm most alive.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church.… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Christian solitary does not seek solitude merely as an atmosphere or as a setting for a special and exalted spirituality. Not… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are at my side, dear friends, and God is everywhere. Yet ultimately we are alone, making our way home by the… — Joan Borysenko Copy Share Image
I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We've known about the transcendant power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to step outside to be alone to think about where we are and where we're heading in life. To… — Brigitte Nicole Copy Share Image
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
