Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Your ability to overcome distractions will determine how long you can stay in solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Solitude isn’t loneliness. Solitude is when the entire serene universe seems to surround and hold you quietly.” — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone. — Thomas Lansing Masson Copy Share Image
It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company. — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues… — Adam Bagdasarian Copy Share Image
It's not loneliness or fear that's tough when alone, but to accept the fact that out of the billions of people in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human… — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“You come into this world alone and die alone, but there's a really long stretch in the middle that can be extraordinarily… — Julie Klam Copy Share Image
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The crowdedness of family life and the faithfulness of solitude - both brave decisions, or both decisions of cowardice - make little… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
True happiness is impossible without solitude… I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
“A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York… — Arman Copy Share Image
“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy.… — Alexander Humboldt Copy Share Image
“I performed the part of an odd, quiet woman, and performed it to everyone's satisfaction. When others slept, I was awake; when… — Margaret Cezair-Thompson Copy Share Image
It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
“I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do.… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
