Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge. — Allen Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all… — John Braine Copy Share Image
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“After six years of solitude, sharing a meal and conversation with someone was a pleasure. More than a pleasure, her hospitality and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“As soon as we are alone,...inner chaos opens up in us. This chaos can be so disturbing and so confusing that we… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can… — Tamim Ansary Copy Share Image
We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself.” — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep,… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You… — Yasmin Mogahed 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
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
Loneliness is devastating our mental and physical health and, at its worst, is killing us. Yet thankfully, unlike some conditions, we can… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You’re a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by… — Bruce Obee Copy Share Image
The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image