“ Solitude There is a charm in Solitude that cheers A feeling that the world knows nothing of A green delight the… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“and one knows, after a long time of solitude, after the many steps taken away from one's kind, toward the kingdom of… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The nocturnal glory of being great without being anything! The sombre majesty of splendours no one knows… And I suddenly experience the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
“By the second day, the song lyrics had faded, but in their place came darker irritations. Gradually, I started to become aware… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Tis not for golden eloquence I pray, A godlike tongue to move a stony heart-- Methinks it were full well to be… — Frederick Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Part of me remained forever at Latitude 80 degrees 08 minutes South: what survived of my youth, my vanity, perhaps, and certainly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“He was careful to avoid meeting anyone. There was Stubbs, the gardener, coming along the path. He hid behind a tree till… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude,… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There's not much to say about loneliness, for it's not a broad subject. Any child, alone in her room, can journey across… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed,… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
“In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding... Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“What did I fear, and why? — I, to whom the night had been a more familiar face than that of man… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We carry our burdens all the time; we never die to them, we never leave them behind. It is only when we… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, and loneliness. You will see that the world is not on… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he seek: a clean parchment… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon… Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Nothing is therefore more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, forced by its very nature to unfold, nourished by the fantastic visions of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“It is a comfort to me to know that above the steam and filth of human lowlands there is a higher, brighter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
