I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order… — Paul Auster 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
When I put music on, block out the world around me and let my problems be taken care of by the noise,… — Alexander Brisnehan Copy Share Image
One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“Much better stay in company! To love you must have someone else, Giving requires a legatee, Good neighbours need whole parishfuls Of… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“If you are in the mountains alone for some time, many days at minimum, & it helps if you are fasting. The… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with… — Elyse Draper Copy Share Image
Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“I had ways of consoling myself. Yes, there was food but there was beyond food, this idea I had of an oversoul… — Liz Moore Copy Share Image
“He had learned early on the trick of living separately in a crowd, private in his mind when his body could not… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think there is a difference between aloneness and loneliness. Aloneness is necessary for the soul to thrive - even to come… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“We finally realize this one day that our solitude is a blessing for us!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
