“A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Who are you? In constant solitude you will search for yourself. While you bump into millions of your various characters, understand this:… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
“After chopping off all the arms that reached out to me; after boarding up all the windows and doors; after filling all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“There were more problems with solitude than just being horny and bored. If you didn't have anyone to talk to for days… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.” — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
Solitude is part of my life, and I don't mind that. I like it. I love it. I don't allow loneliness to… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
“I hate all electronic toys: cell phones, e-mail, PalmPilots, handheld Global Positioning System equipment, and the whole raft of gadgets that intrude… — David Skibbins 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
“During this week, Ragan has experience a bit of insecurity with me, the result of my being quieter than usual, which he… — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
“we fear solitude. We mistake it for loneliness and attempt to fill the emptiness, the silence with activity and noise and people.… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“... all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the stage terrifies me,” I confessed. “But being here alone like this, it’s freeing.” Solitude can be freeing,” he said.” — Lesa Howard Copy Share Image
“Well -- there are two kinds of loneliness, aren't there? There's the loneliness of absolute solitude -- the physical fact of living… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
“Retreat is brave when you steal a great prize from your enemy's hands.” — David Bowles Copy Share Image
“Solitude, which is one of the most agreeable sensations of the natural man, is one of the most painful and alarming sensations… — William J. Dawson Copy Share Image
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return — John Milton Copy Share Image
“dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A room is not just a room; it's more than that. This is where you live, it's where you sleep and it's… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
