I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
“She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.” — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“The strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is… — Thomas Paine 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
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
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
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
It's very easy to fall back unto my old ways when I'm working a lot. It's important for me to continue to… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“Hope, Paul said to me once, which whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Man ordinarily lives in loneliness. To avoid loneliness, he creates all kinds of relationships, friendships, organizations, political parties, religions and what not.… — Osho Copy Share Image
“loneliness is a strange sort of thing. it creeps up on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be… — J.K. Rowling 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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, 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
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
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
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative. — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my solitude." ( Letter to Mimi Romanelli , May 11, 1910)” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“As far I go away from myself to solitude I experience wiser &stronger.. Solitude is the most excellent place to get pleasure… — Manjula Jyothiprakash Copy Share Image
