No one to talk with, all by myself. No one to walk with, but I'm happy on the shelf. — Fats Waller Copy Share Image
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way… — Juliette Fay Copy Share Image
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human sufferings, it teaches nothing, leads us nowhere; and generally, devalues us… — Adam Bagdasarian Copy Share Image
“I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I lay awake listening to the rain, and at first it was as pleasant to my ear and my mind as it… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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