“You are at my side, dear friends, and God is everywhere. Yet ultimately we are alone, making our way home by the… — Joan Borysenko Copy Share Image
“In principle a Party member had no spare time, and was never alone except in bed. It was assumed that when he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“Solitude means withdrawal from an artificial and fictional level of being which men, divided by original sin, have fabricated in order to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“On the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone It must have been the eighth day. A day the scribes and Pharisees conveniently left… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The most perfect solitude must entail the absence of all beings, but it must also tremble with the light of life. For… — Meia Geddes Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose single… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“He had to hold his body very still, very still, like some vessel about to slosh over from too much motion. Gradually… — patrick suskind Copy Share Image
“I’ve spent a lot of my time alone, and I have learned to treat myself as if I were a family. I… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need… — Franz Winkler Copy Share Image
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I know I have within myself... a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people who just… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I… — Ruth Sawyer Copy Share Image
“In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“She has always said that talking makes everyone feel better. He says talking is the equivalent of grooming. The tongue and fingers… — Colin McAdam Copy Share Image
“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“As we embrace a technology’s gifts, we usually fail to consider what they ask from us in return—the subtle, hardly noticeable payments… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“Love is not an agreement between two people/parties to exchange love between each other when the time comes that they need it.… — Hammad Motiwala Copy Share Image
No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
“His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“We see much more of this loneliness now. It's paradoxical that that where people are the most closely crowded in the big… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“All I can say is that I’m grateful that in many ways they just let me be. They didn’t want my rough… — Tommy Caldwell Copy Share Image
“So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“SONG OF DAWN I saw the sun rise by accident. It was a horrible sight. Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refuge… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
“At an early age I found myself facing the incomprehensible, the unthinkable, death. Ever since, I have known nothing on this earth… — Edmond Jabès Copy Share Image
Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
