“For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is… — Philip Smith Copy Share Image
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“She was secure in the miniature world she had built; the two other men seemed distant planets, each in his own sphere… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Everybody at least once needs somewhere they can be alone, a space where they could hold tight to the serenity and privacy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I just need my alone time. This world is so crazy and unpredictable. I just need some time to think, relax,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Something everybody had, Like nakedness, it lay… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do.… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a passive state. It is a compulsion when you are left on your own by others. Solitude, on the other… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Loneliness doesnôt come from having no one around you, but from being unable to comunicate the things that are important to you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for… — Anne Ortlund Copy Share Image
When you're first minister, I always say you're never alone, yet it is the loneliest job in the world because no one… — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“...the Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Bien sûr on a des chagrins d’amour, mais on a surtout des chagrins de soi-même. Finalement la vie n’est qu’une affaire de… — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the… — Albert Camus 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
“Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
