“There was a Wonderful Friend whom i meet when ever in solitude.. He gives me solace & Fun. People call them Books.” — Lowplex Copy Share Image
You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude."… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity.” — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as… — Alice Koller Copy Share Image
“and one knows, after a long time of solitude, after the many steps taken away from one's kind, toward the kingdom of… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly,… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.” — Mihail Drumeş Copy Share Image
A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
