Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience and appreciate yourself. — Robert Tew Copy Share Image
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Reckon it's best if u don't have anyone u care about; then it can't hurt u. Don't have to be afraid of… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
“I feel like a cog in a machine, but that’s one part of the military I don’t mind. When you do exactly… — Marko Kloos Copy Share Image
Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
“A student to teacher: “I am so alone; I don’t know what to do?” Teacher: “Do not worry about being alone, we… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“When you’re alone, it’s easy to be afraid. It’s easy to focus on what might be lurking in the dark at the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“It is useless to try to make peace with ourselves by being pleased with everything we have done. In order to settle… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The late afternoon Sun threw amber and gold across the deep body of the ocean, breaking into unseen luminance across the horizon.… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Not all who are alone are lonely, and not all who are together are loved.” — Brian D. Meeks Copy Share Image
LONELINESS is a good FEELING when it is created by our self... But it is the WORST FEELING when it is gifted… — Cuts And Scars Copy Share Image
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I chose this path for solitude, not realizing the the hobo life is a very sociable lifestyle...” — G Johanson Copy Share Image
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
As public as I seem with all my charity parties and entertaining, I actually spend a lot time in solitude and need… — Sonja Morgan Copy Share Image
I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people realise how lonely they are on their own, they will become kind. — MiraJane Fairy Tail Copy Share Image
At least be alone in solitude, than out there where the people I met can become my foe! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We all are individual and lonely, like stars which appear so close but millions of miles apart.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image