A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude.… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It gets rough being alone but just as being alone had started from some place, one will not be alone for the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
“When I am all alone Envy me most, Then my thoughts flutter round me In a glimmering host; Some dressed in silver,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Seek silence in the midst of the tumult, seek solitude in the masses, light in the midst of darkness; find forgetfulness in… — Michael Molinos Copy Share Image
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you… — Anonymous 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
“No one is harming you, you are fine, you sit in silence, alone in a desolate park after the rain, or in… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“All of us are lonely at some point or another, no matter how many people surround us. And then, we meet someone… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
“You can’t be friends with everyone. To be true to another is to be an enemy of the group. To have space… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the… — Jim Davidson Copy Share Image
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Being lonely doesn't mean something is wrong with me. I can calmly experience loneliness and learn to grow creatively from the time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Exercise is my outlet, the one thing I do during the day that's mine and mine alone. I don't want to work… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat… — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
Girls' strength lies in its diversity, and its members have walked in a lot of borrowed shoes to make it that way.… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
“If you do not follow somebody you feel very lonely. Be lonely then. Why are you frightened of being alone? Because you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him into by the way… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“ Loneliness A recent study showed that 13.5 percent of college students are severely lonely. Overall, they felt that they were to… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“From solitude in the womb, we emerge into solitude among our Fellows, and return again to solitude within the Grave. We pass… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“ The Infinite It was always dear to me, this solitary hill, and this hedgerow here, that closes out my view, from… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
![“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.” quote by Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d6a/richard-rohr-618_deeper_if-i-m-going-to-continue-to-be-any-kind_270254.jpg)
