“Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human situation in which I keep myself company.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude. — Max Elliott Slade Copy Share Image
“The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In solitude... one can think and feel deeply without interruption. I have definitely grown far closer to myself rather than to others… — Nancy Crow Copy Share Image
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I alone am my stronghold, in solitude I redeem myself without bothering anybody else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is… — 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
In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot… — Carlos Gavito Copy Share Image
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms… — William Kean Seymour Copy Share Image
Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Solitude is the worst of punishments. It’s like waiting in the Death Row for your last supper and the final blow, the… — Magdalena Ganowska Copy Share Image