“For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have to run and hide. What I do at home sometimes is, I listen to a CD of the roughness… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
“This day fifty years ago I was born. From solitude in the Womb, we emerge into solitude among our Fellows, and return… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There is a sort of light surrounding Abel, something pure and strong radiates from him no matter where he is or what… — Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on,… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature have never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
“No, no, sometimes a person feels to be alone." "If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much." "Without a… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“It’s the beating of my heart. The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up my wall. The gentle moonlight… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people.… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of the twenty-first century, to feel alone or want to be alone is deeply unfashionable: to admit to feeling… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
