“For many who are alone, because their partner has died or they have separated from them, a sudden, unfamiliar emptiness is the… — Janett Menzel 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
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“The evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do.Inside my apartment I'd… — daniel quinn Copy Share Image
“I go, I go away, I walk, I wander, and everywhere I go I bear my shell with me, I remain at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the… — Feist Copy Share Image
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I love the stillness of the wood; I love the music of the rill: I love the couch in pensive mood Upon… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“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
“At the foundation of the Christian life, there is a kind of sacred individuality, a sort of holy aloneness that cries out… — Michael Spencer Copy Share Image
But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church.… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Descend lower, descend only Into the world of perpetual solitude, World not world, but that which is not world, Internal darkness, deprivation… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Stranger, think long before you enter, For these corridors amuse not passing travellers. But if you enter, keep your voice to yourself.… — G.A. Kulkarni Copy Share Image
“Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human sufferings, it teaches nothing, leads us nowhere; and generally, devalues us… — Adam Bagdasarian Copy Share Image
“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your… — Anneli Rufus Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate,… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I lay awake listening to the rain, and at first it was as pleasant to my ear and my mind as it… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
