“Solitary writers come out of nowhere and do not belong anywhere. They are not domesticated or socialized, not as writers. Their subject… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
“I find beauty in sadness, and peace... and a mystery waiting to be solved.. the more you unfold the mystery, the more… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Farewells are so strange. There’s something terrifying, deadly, about them, and yet they awaken a desperate urge to live. Perhaps farewells create… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world. — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound -… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“On re-entering cultivated lands, the agitation, perplexity, and turmoil of civilization oppressed and suffocated us; the air seemed to fail us, and… — Évariste Régis Huc Copy Share Image
I realised that rather than looking for someone else to be an 'other half' to make me whole, that I need to… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
Sometimes words may not mean much, other times they may mean the world. They say there is a time and place for… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
The moment you give up all thought of retreat or surrender you become an unstoppable force. — Tommy Newberry Copy Share Image
“A successful alone-time period means letting go of communication addiction. During alone time, give up instant messages, phone calls, e-mail, and meetings.… — Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman, 37 Signals Copy Share Image
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“I didn’t mind being alone. Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“He who seeks may easily get lost himself. All solitude is wrong": so say the herd. And long did you belong to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
