In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
“It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things . When you've lost your mother and your father, you… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“I think maybe bad things seem worse when people are alone. When they can turn that bad thought over and over in… — Shannon Wiersbitzky Copy Share Image
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“No one is harming you, you are fine, you sit in silence, alone in a desolate park after the rain, or in… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“All of us are lonely at some point or another, no matter how many people surround us. And then, we meet someone… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Seek silence in the midst of the tumult, seek solitude in the masses, light in the midst of darkness; find forgetfulness in… — Michael Molinos Copy Share Image
It's not loneliness that makes being alone unbearable. It's accepting the fact that of the 7 billion people in the world, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The psyche of some people, whether through innate structure or via adaption to personal experiences, is uniquely adept for absolute aloneness.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Lonely hours is the best time of life, because its the only time I share my deepest secrets with the most trusted… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It would be wise to be concerned about the introvert who is deprived of solitude. Is she neglecting herself due to depression?… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you… — 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… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and… — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste Copy Share Image
“Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“You don’t fight with yourself when you live in solitude and the only reason people fall in love with themselves is that… — Bhavik Sarkhedi Copy Share Image
The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
“Don't let a busy life or electronic communication gadgets be your excuse for excess solitude - it's a talent, but a rare… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Solitude brings a calm mind. A calm mind brings peace. Peace brings contentment. Contentment brings joy and happiness. Meditate. — Tom Tucker Copy Share Image
