I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood?… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The guiding principle of Martin’s personality, the sum of his interior existence, was the desire to be left alone. If all those… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake up in the middle of the night and… — M. Ageyev Copy Share Image
“The feeling of not being understood and of not understanding the world is no mere accompaniment of first passion, but its sole… — Robert Musil 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is useless to try to make peace with ourselves by being pleased with everything we have done. In order to settle… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Feeling alone among the many is normal. Feeling many when you are alone, calls for a professional help. A qualified shrink can… — Boris Zubry Copy Share Image
“Worse, this vast sense of loss … without the ability to trust – anyone. Without that, what do I see in the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Go, little Book! From this my solitude I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways: And if, as I believe, thy vein… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly -… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's lucky that my life outside of work is so mellow; I'm really a homebody and a hermit, so I don't have… — Melissa Benoist Copy Share Image
“I spent half my childhood in the shadows. Hiding from my father or my brother. Creeping from a place of solitude to… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Distance seems to be bad for some but not for me. It gives solitude and space. It tests patience, endurance and faith.… — Jey Lopez Copy Share Image
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“Quiet had a roof and it had walls around it, and you could sit inside it. She had never thought of silence… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Solitude became, for me, an interesting mosaic of broken pieces, a place where the neglected parts of myself get collected—for better and… — Laurie A. Helgoe Copy Share Image
I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
A friend is someone you can count on. That will never leave you even though everybody does. Someone will never let you… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“lonely and isolated people who feel their solitude more intensely within the busy life of the streets. They are what George Gissing… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I am caged In solitude It haunted me Wont let me go If there is any other way. To heal the pain… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
“But for the first time, Boaz couldn't think of a single word to describe this kind of loneliness, so scary and real… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet'… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
