“As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“There is a terrible beauty to isolation. You don’t have to accept responsibility for others, or live up to their expectations. You… — Celia Stander Copy Share Image
“God save me from perfect strangers who feel obliged to chat with us and so transparently barrage us with feigned interest. Loneliness… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
“My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
It's a cinch to pass the time with you but hard to pass the time alone can you take it and it's… — Quicksand Copy Share Image
Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“A retreat from someone or something isn't unusual. Just as how you edge closer to see better, at times you may need… — Rajuda Copy Share Image
“What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man needs love, because he cannot accept that times he will be alone. But if you've the strength to overcome adversity, you… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
This is my cocoon dream. The nightmare that has been tormenting my existence in this world. I was walking along this path.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane.… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“There are times when a man should sleep entwined in the warm flesh of a woman, his flanks plummeting into the perfumed… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness.… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“That was the state of the world when I began to be aware of my family environment, and I cannot evoke it… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
“Better to go hungry than to be alone. Because when you’re alone—and I’m talking here about an enforced solitude not of our… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trucking-company terminals are places where paperwork gets filled out, driving orders are given, and partners are assigned. They can often be social… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative.” — S. Usher Evans Copy Share Image
Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
“One thing time has not removed from me,” she wrote to Grover, “the last toughness of youth, and that is to live… — Caroline Moorehead Copy Share Image
Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of… — Nicholas Roerich Copy Share Image
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves;… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
That's what fascinates me about these writers' retreats: You're in these small spaces with small groups of people, and all of the… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
