I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Those who love seek a philosophy and, because of this, are fond of solitude.” — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“what is the difference between being an independent person and being a person who is accepting of loneliness” — Mira Gonzalez Copy Share Image
When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad. — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate. — Nitin Sawhney Copy Share Image
When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Because loneliness can kill you. And even if it doesn’t kill you physically—which it certainly can, disease of the psyche often leads… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them,… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Spend time with yourself. It is where everything begins. It is in this serene space of solitude that you will find clarity,… — Miya Yamanouchi Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“After chopping off all the arms that reached out to me; after boarding up all the windows and doors; after filling all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“It was one of Emily's earliest pleasures to ramble among the scenes of nature; nor was it in the soft and glowing… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image
You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“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
