There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A community is not a place where 'desert fathers' are testing themselves - more and more, harder and harder, each on his… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Living without personal boundaries is like trying to hold my breath and gasp for air, at the same time, it doesn't work.… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude-they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than… — Herb Elliott Copy Share Image
“WE ARE FRITTERING AWAY TIME AND MONEY IN A MULTIPLICITY OF CONVENTIONS, conferences, and retreats, when the real need is to go… — Studd, C. T. (Charles Thomas Copy Share Image
“So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do.Inside my apartment I'd… — daniel quinn Copy Share Image
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation.… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“the romance of solitude and small places, the blurring of identity.” — Spencer Gordon Copy Share Image
In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test… — Naomi Uemura Copy Share Image
I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
