To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“I feel like a cog in a machine, but that’s one part of the military I don’t mind. When you do exactly… — Marko Kloos Copy Share Image
Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others,… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
“With that solitude came the greatest luxuries: the time to read, the opportunity to wander, and the chance to think new thoughts.” — Alice Kaplan Copy Share Image
“A box sits empty, wanting to hold and protect. Hollow tears it cries.” — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For there is no retreat that is quieter or freer from trouble than a man’s own soul, especially when he has within… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You must learn focus and concentration for you to enjoy solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Just because I want to be alone one day doesn't mean I want to be alone for the rest of my life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
All I can say in my solitude is, May Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one - American, English, Turk -… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“Better to go hungry than to be alone. Because when you’re alone—and I’m talking here about an enforced solitude not of our… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities! — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Part of me remained forever at Latitude 80 degrees 08 minutes South: what survived of my youth, my vanity, perhaps, and certainly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“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
I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other’s presence with a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side. Because Love needs to rest, so that it can journey through the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
