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
“When you are surrounded by the people who do not see the world as you see it, you will be the loneliest… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Lonely isn't a feeling when you're alone, lonely is a feeling when no one cares. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the alchemy that turns an adolescent into an adult. Adolescents are profoundly lonely, but believe that their pangs will be… — Joan Gould Copy Share Image
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without… — Charles Bukowski 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
The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Reckon it's best if u don't have anyone u care about; then it can't hurt u. Don't have to be afraid of… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Of course, I'm not quite ready to forsake all the products of society, just yet. I have my clothes, my books, etc...… — Mark X Copy Share Image
Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced. — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to step outside, get some fresh air, and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to… — Camilia Copy Share Image
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. — George Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
