“Edward had used work and accomplishments throughout his life to keep the misery at bay. He’d endured so much heartache in the… — Steven Decker 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
I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely… — Shawn Thompson Copy Share Image
“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
