“There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“The space where we find rest and healing for our souls is solitude.” — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on,… — Florida Scott-Maxwell 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
“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
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
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
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that… — Seneca the Younger 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
“To enter solitude, we must disregard what others think of us. Who will understand this call to aloneness? Even our closest friends… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Quiet people get the most accomplished cause their next move is always unknown. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
