The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“In torment, there was release. In the darkness, there was light. In solitude, there were companions.” — C.C. Humphreys Copy Share Image
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not… — David Markson Copy Share Image
A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The thought of attention made me want to hide in a closet. I wasn't a kid who liked attention. I liked solitude… — Daria Werbowy Copy Share Image
“All you need is a little space and a little time—a place to work, and some time to do it; a little… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not about what happens when you are alone, but what happens when you are with others. It is about how… — Kim Fay Copy Share Image
I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“WE ARE FRITTERING AWAY TIME AND MONEY IN A MULTIPLICITY OF CONVENTIONS, conferences, and retreats, when the real need is to go… — Studd, C. T. (Charles Thomas Copy Share Image
“At work, cubicle three in the ladies’ cloakroom had become my retreat. There, I could hide away and silently sob whenever I… — Angie Langley Copy Share Image
“It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. [...] It hides you from the world and the world from… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I discovered something I would inflict on myself several more times: the primacy of loneliness. If you’re working hard and lonely, or… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“The Winter Miles The roads of solitude grow whiter, And stones beneath us paler, While the green fades completely — Ahead of us. Grey is… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“Hence in solitude, or that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathize not with us, we… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“From whence cometh the pounding of desire if not from the depths of loneliness?” — Martin Cosgrove Copy Share Image
“Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great. — Danielle Fishel Copy Share Image
Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“In the place of solitude, you are able to take advantage of time and bring forth children in the form of products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“I am not alone, you see;—and those whose time is fully occupied seldom complain of solitude.” — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.” — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“Retreat is brave when you steal a great prize from your enemy's hands.” — David Bowles Copy Share Image
“To be alone was my best interest because needing myself was looking for you” — Nicola An Copy Share Image
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Loneliness is part of being human. It reminds us that we are not complete in ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a mental block ... It is a habit and an addiction… get out of that addiction as soon as possible...!!!” — Arun Prabhu- aradhya Copy Share Image