“I’ve spent a lot of my time alone, and I have learned to treat myself as if I were a family. I… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Solitude can become your most meaningful companion and it can assist you in being a more giving person in your spiritual partnerships.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“A broadcast about wolves, with recordings of their howls. What a language! The most heartrending I know, and I shall never forget… — Cioran Copy Share Image
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Cause if you’re happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay. — Tanya Davis Copy Share Image
“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“There is a sort of light surrounding Abel, something pure and strong radiates from him no matter where he is or what… — Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“—Quína solitut!— murmurà aterrada y sentint que'l cor li devenía, d'improvís, tant o més ubach que aquelles pregoneses.” — Víctor Català Copy Share Image
“If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image