Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own. — George Best Copy Share Image
“Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.” — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Im the person who is always quiet but once I cant take it anymore I will just say what's on my mind — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As much as group work is important, it's better to work alone than to work with the wrong group. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“I think it was the lavatory to which I retired- a perfect place for quiet meditation, where no one could possibly pursue… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write. — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
People think being alone makes you lonely. I dont think thats true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“When I say a clever thing to people they look startled and uncomfortable. I should just like to be quiet for years… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Solitude has the potential to bring the best thoughts to you. When you are not involved in the emotional, entangled in the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
“When I am all alone Envy me most, Then my thoughts flutter round me In a glimmering host; Some dressed in silver,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness.… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There are times when a man should sleep entwined in the warm flesh of a woman, his flanks plummeting into the perfumed… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Lonely’ is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Silence doesn’t have to be a major pilgrimage into the wilderness in order to find a solitary space. Everyday tasks such as… — Ed Cyzewski Copy Share Image
as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I think I like it here. Alone. I have no one to talk to, and nothing to say.” — Ekta Kumar Copy Share Image
When everyone leaves you its loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else its solitude. — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.” — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Lead me, save me from my solitude. Say you want me with you,… — Charles Hart Copy Share Image
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and… — John Keble Copy Share Image
If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through… — Rajiv Mehrotra Copy Share Image
“She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.” — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
“The strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In this quiet place on a quiet street where no one ever finds us gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain. --from… — Author-Poet Aberjhani Copy Share Image
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
