The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not… — David Markson Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Solitude helps you to discover that you can walk through life all by yourself and that you don’t need to be dependent… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Nowhere can anyone find a # quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his or her own # soul . We need… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most… — William B. Ogden Copy Share Image
Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Relationship Time to Aloneness." Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness… — Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Perceptive and valuable personal explorations of time alone include A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland, Party of One by Anneli Rufus,… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“The way one is envisaged by other people - what easier way is there of envisaging oneself? There is a fatalism in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“For Pamela, dinner in solitude, especially the public solitude of hotels, was a punishment. Companionlessness and compulsory silence depressed her. Besides, she… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“These days, loneliness is the new cancer—a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“The first great literary work about solitude, the Tao Te Ching, was written in ancient China, likely in the sixth century B.C.,… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
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