Most people have never known solitude… But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
“Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then,… — Cristen Rodgers Copy Share Image
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of… — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity.” — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“A loner, by nature, burdens no one with their existence. By avoiding entanglements with others, they cause no harm. We are extremely… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
“If you do not follow somebody you feel very lonely. Be lonely then. Why are you frightened of being alone? Because you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“You can’t be friends with everyone. To be true to another is to be an enemy of the group. To have space… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“But if you learn to really sit with that loneliness and embrace it as the gift that it is—an opportunity to get… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everyone around me was allowed, permitted to fall apart; yet I had to think twice. I couldn't bear to take another dip… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
I arise to day... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“.., but I would suggest that it is instead our solitude that most disturb us, the fact that we are all but… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow… — John Muir Copy Share Image
You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Sometimes loneliness isn't such a bad end after all, sometimes it brings out the hidden potential in us and make us realize… — Blaze Olermiday Copy Share Image
The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I should be able to return to solitude each time as to the place I have never described to anybody, as the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Being mindful, one moves from being a thinker, living in a muddied lake, to being an observer, living in a crystal-clear lake.” — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem most important… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And we had met at last in this same cave of greenery, while the summer night hung round us heavy with love,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“In quietness and trust is your strength.—Isaiah 30:15 In solitude, sacred embrace wraps fragile souls in vital grace, weaves trust with threads… — The writers of Encouraging.com Copy Share Image
“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
When I put music on, block out the world around me and let my problems be taken care of by the noise,… — Alexander Brisnehan Copy Share Image
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a… — Vera Caspary Copy Share Image
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