“Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.” — Mihail Drumeş Copy Share Image
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Everyone around me was allowed, permitted to fall apart; yet I had to think twice. I couldn't bear to take another dip… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“But once you accept the fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can begin to… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of… — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
“Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“ The Infinite It was always dear to me, this solitary hill, and this hedgerow here, that closes out my view, from… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“From solitude in the womb, we emerge into solitude among our Fellows, and return again to solitude within the Grave. We pass… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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