I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing. — Gene Pitney Copy Share Image
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction. — Oliver P. Smith Copy Share Image
People say loneliness kills. I say not loneliness but the absence of someone kills. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
“Solitude does strange things to a man. When it's just you & your soul, you better be friends.” — Diane Owens Prettyman Copy Share Image
“—Quína solitut!— murmurà aterrada y sentint que'l cor li devenía, d'improvís, tant o més ubach que aquelles pregoneses.” — Víctor Català Copy Share Image
Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of mind's creativity. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it.… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and… — Javad Alizadeh Copy Share Image
The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves… A writer… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“The cage wasn't insignificant in the shaping of my wings, stillness is an experience only the deep souls can go. A quiet… — Nikki rowe Copy Share Image
“Loneliness. It's a thing, you know, not a feeling. A big, ugly thing that moves in and takes over until you forget… — Mary Beth Miller Copy Share Image
I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am plac'd in my philosophy, and fancy myself some… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Solitude is part of my life, and I don't mind that. I like it. I love it. I don't allow loneliness to… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
“The strange fortune of my lynx brought him to live in an artificial environment, a human community utterly foreign to him. His… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Solitude is an interesting companion. It is both enemy and friend, comforter and tormentor. I spent a lot of time in Dun… — Jennifer Fallon Copy Share Image
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already… — Adeline Yen Mah Copy Share Image
“It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one… — Julian Hawthorne Copy Share Image
