Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude. — Brendan Dooling 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
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Silence and solitude are universally recognized spiritual practices, and there are good reasons for this. Learning how to discipline your speech is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.” — Allen Shawn Copy Share Image
“No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“The ambiance of solitude, the absence of any disturbing noise and of worldly desires and images, the quiet and calm attention of… — Carthusian Monks Copy Share Image
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd. — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
