“As if the only genuine gestures were the small ones, the ones devoid of an audience. As if true honesty belonged to… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“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
It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Lonely’ is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I think maybe bad things seem worse when people are alone. When they can turn that bad thought over and over in… — Shannon Wiersbitzky Copy Share Image
“Silence doesn’t have to be a major pilgrimage into the wilderness in order to find a solitary space. Everyday tasks such as… — Ed Cyzewski Copy Share Image
We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
“When we live with a solitude of heart, we can listen with attention to the words and the worlds of others, but… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the worst pain that human can go through specially the period time when technology that is design to keep people… — Nadair Desmar Copy Share Image
But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The loneliest moment in someones life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart and all they can do is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A writer should be a recluse. Why share words with a few friends in the moment when they can be written down… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“I know why you seek solitude. You suffer; I see it day by day. You sure you do not suffer needlessly? There… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence,… — Natsume Soseki Copy Share Image
The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if… — Ted Michael Copy Share Image
“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
