Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“But once you accept the fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can begin to… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
“I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry… — L.M. Montgomery 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
“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
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
“.., 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
“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
“For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I find beauty in sadness, and peace... and a mystery waiting to be solved.. the more you unfold the mystery, the more… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where… — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
“in college there is no time to commune with one’s thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think.… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
“He'd wanted to - he didn't know. Break bottles. Break windows, crash cars. Burn down the world. Find solace at the bottom… — Michael Montoure 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
“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
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 live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — Anonymous 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
“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“It’s human nature to be weird, but also human to be lonely. This conflict between fitting in and standing out is at… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Without solitude true happiness was impossible. The fallen angel was faithless to God probably only because he longed for solitude, which angles… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
“For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a… — June Hunt Copy Share Image
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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