“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleasure, sensitizing and clarifying,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music.… — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
“Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly -… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I remind myself of a lonely princess who's not locked in a tower, who's free to do as she pleases. But she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude; but believers are not compared to bears, or lions, or other animals… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
