The state of being alone is truly invigorating. One should get accustomed with that in a slow and steady manner. However, it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself” — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“I think it was the lavatory to which I retired- a perfect place for quiet meditation, where no one could possibly pursue… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Cuddle I cuddle you i cuddle me, i cuddle the loneliness, in the solitude in which you left me, your scent is… — Ivonne Yáñez Saba Copy Share Image
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God” — Fulton Sheen Copy Share Image
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“No one is harming you, you are fine, you sit in silence, alone in a desolate park after the rain, or in… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
“It was a melancholy day indeed when the sister of solitude was Sunday's silver lining.” — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
I'm okay with being alone in crowded places. People just feel more awkward about me more than I feel about myself. I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“i will forever be colliding with a billion unnamed undiscovered stars, each of us on our own orbital paths.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I am essence of Rose Solitude my cheeks are laced with cognac my hips sealed with five satin nails I carry dreams… — Jayne Cortez Copy Share Image
If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“At first the solitude charmed me like a prelude, but so much music wounded me.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image