“To live with ghosts requires solitude. —ANNE MICHAELS, Fugitive Pieces” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.” — Wayne Cordeiro Copy Share Image
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As for loneliness, it too has deep roots in selfishness, for its anguish stems less from having no one with whom to… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
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 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
After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I've discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence, make… — Tommy Barnett Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I feel like I veer more away from technology than toward it. I'm a little scared of the direction we're going, to… — Martin Starr Copy Share Image
“Most of us are more tired than we know at the soul level. We are teetering on the brink of dangerous exhaustion,… — Ruth Haley Barton Copy Share Image
“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many… — José Antonio Bowen Copy Share Image
“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“If you're comfortable with solitude, being left out is not a problem” — Cesar Nikko Caharian III Copy Share Image
“if we don’t have experience with solitude—and this is often the case today—we start to equate loneliness and solitude.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“We should learn early to enjoy being in solitude, because even in death, we are in solitude.” — John Joclebs Bassey Copy Share Image
What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing — David Levithan Copy Share Image
All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's lonely being a celebrity - no one talks to you when you're being papped. — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
“He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“..i spill into the kind of silence only Khalil Gibran would understand.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the worse kind of drug out there because it will kill you faster than anything else! — Valerie Scott Copy Share Image
Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
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![“[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/45b/elizabeth-gilbert-131_angel_saint-anthony-said-in-his-solitude-he-so_900560.jpg)
![“Most of us are more tired than we know at the soul level. We are teetering on the brink of dangerous exhaustion, and we cannot do anything else until we have gotten some rest...we can't really engage [any spiritual disciplines] until solitude becomes a place of rest for us rather than another…” quote by Ruth Haley Barton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/02f/ruth-haley-barton-21489_religion_most-of-us-are-more-tired-than-we-know-a_856708.jpg)
