“I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.” — Ben Greenman Copy Share Image
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.” — Alfa Copy Share Image
“If we seek solitary retreat, you will be more often refreshed.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Solitude helps you to convert your time into the clarity of purpose.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Stranger, think long before you enter, For these corridors amuse not passing travellers. But if you enter, keep your voice to yourself.… — G.A. Kulkarni Copy Share Image
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return — John Milton Copy Share Image
“No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“No retreat, no way around, one has to take their fight to the end.” — Trygve Gulbranssen Copy Share Image
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude. — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
“Eagles remind us of the power of solitude and reflection, as they retreat to high places to rest and renew their strength” — Dr. Lucas D. Shallua Copy Share Image
I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone. — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places. — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
