On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“So you have chosen aloneness. You have chosen the security and the relative freedom of solitude, because there is no risk involved.… — Chelsea Fagan Copy Share Image
“There are no more deserts. There are no more islands. Yet there is a need for them. In order to understand the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I had no problem spending Monday through Friday alone, Saturdays were neutral, but each Sunday had to be reckoned with. There's solitude… — Chloe Aridjis Copy Share Image
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
“I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If you do not know where to go in the middle of a bridge, make the bridge as your destination and combine… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Being alone is not the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to a fellow evangelical, McHugh's sense of spiritual failure would make… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that loneliness is necessarily a bad or unconstructive condition. My own skill at jamming time may actually be dependent… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Cantor illustrated the concept of infinity for his students by telling them that there was once a man who had a hotel… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
“i am a free man— and i need my freedom. i need to be alone. i need to ponder my shame and… — henry miller Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, from all the green around you, something-you don't know what-has disappeared; you feel it creeping closer to the window, in total… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Everyone experiences the feelings of sadness and loneliness. We might rue our lack of companionship, but some people present a desperate need… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Dawn is such a private hour, don’t you think? Such a solitary hour. One always hears that said of midnight, but I… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen years' slavery.… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and… — Stefan Merrill Block Copy Share Image
The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I hate all electronic toys: cell phones, e-mail, PalmPilots, handheld Global Positioning System equipment, and the whole raft of gadgets that intrude… — David Skibbins Copy Share Image
The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Edward breathed in the sweet fragrance of the dogwood blossoms. The delicious air came into his lungs and passed into his blood,… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
“This is the weird aftermath, when it is not exactly over, and yet you have given it up. You go back and… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“The human mind feels lonely even when there are so many organs and innumerable cells continuously functioning together in the body. Makes… — Nabil Bhatiya Copy Share Image
