Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Solitude increased my perception. But here’s the tricky thing: when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. There… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“On a writer’s path there are always some level of pain and solitude, life and death, love and hate, longing and fullness… — Frederick Vanderbuilt Copy Share Image
We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“If you were alone when you were born, alone when you were dying, really absolutely alone when you were dead, why "learn… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“The Christian solitary does not seek solitude merely as an atmosphere or as a setting for a special and exalted spirituality. Not… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes… — Nigel Slater Copy Share Image
“In solitude, struggles occur that no one else knows about. Inner battles are fought here that seldom become fodder for sermons or… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Well -- there are two kinds of loneliness, aren't there? There's the loneliness of absolute solitude -- the physical fact of living… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Twenty-two hours and our war begins Our war of limbs and lips and hands ... The best part of finally Not calling… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Allow me to give you some advice from the heart: don’t give up art, and even give yourself over to it even… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Well…there’s only one glove. Right away, I wonder, where’s the other glove? How did it become separated from its mate? Does it… — Linda Kage Copy Share Image
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Alone I can 'Say' but together we can 'Talk'. 'Alone I can 'Enjoy' but together we can 'Celebrate'. 'Alone I can 'Smile'… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“In walking, far from any vehicle or machine, from any mediation, I am replaying the earthly human condition, embodying once again man’s… — Frédéric Gros Copy Share Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“A weariness of the desert was the living always in company, each of the party hearing all that was said and seeing… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor,… — Horace Copy Share Image
I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Nothing stays forever, nobody does rather. All the things, people will leave you one fine day and you’ll be a wanderer in… — Nupur Walia Copy Share Image
“We are all, in the last analysis, alone. And this basic state of solitude is not something we have any choice about.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“This false solution is last for a reason. Doing without is the final resting place of many who have tried the first… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“I had a cup of tea, thought about my day and mostly about the horse whom, though I'd only known him a… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
![“Allow me to give you some advice from the heart: don’t give up art, and even give yourself over to it even more than so far. […] Living in solitude and embittering your soul with recollections, you can make your life very gloomy. There is a single refuge, a single medicine: art and creative work.” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba9/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_advice_allow-me-to-give-you-some-advice-from-th_3092834.jpg)
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