“We've known about the transcendant power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is just like everything else-if you endure it long enough, you get used to it.” — Paula Stokes Copy Share Image
“I didn’t mind being alone. Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“my favourite emotions include 'brief calmness in good weather' and 'i am the only person alive” — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test… — Naomi Uemura Copy Share Image
“It’s not your fault that your brain is reduced to the size of one neuron and that it itself is being annihilated… — Danka V Copy Share Image
“Flee, my friend, into thy solitude—and thither, where a rough strong breeze bloweth. It is not thy lot to be a fly-flap.—… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty . Seek solitude. If your life is well ordered your health will not suffer.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me,… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
“There is a difference in the lone, who are free to walk as fast and far as they like, and the lonely,… — Brian S Woods Copy Share Image
But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never… — Vicente Aleixandre Copy Share Image
“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“She has always said that talking makes everyone feel better. He says talking is the equivalent of grooming. The tongue and fingers… — Colin McAdam Copy Share Image
“In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
“His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Love is not an agreement between two people/parties to exchange love between each other when the time comes that they need it.… — Hammad Motiwala Copy Share Image
“As we embrace a technology’s gifts, we usually fail to consider what they ask from us in return—the subtle, hardly noticeable payments… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
