“There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. — George Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Solitude my solace, wrapped around me like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books and I can sing as loud as I… — Jeannine Hall Gailey Copy Share Image
Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude. — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I feel like I veer more away from technology than toward it. I'm a little scared of the direction we're going, to… — Martin Starr Copy Share Image
Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“She bade solitude good-bye. Good-bye to no schedule but whim; good-bye to her life among no things but her own and each… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table. GRACE: -Is that an order? CORNELIA: -I don't give orders to you, I make requests.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Spend time with yourself. It is where everything begins. It is in this serene space of solitude that you will find clarity,… — Miya Yamanouchi Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude. — Sarah Mahoney Copy Share Image
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself,… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
