You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced. — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“I discovered something I would inflict on myself several more times: the primacy of loneliness. If you’re working hard and lonely, or… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. [...] It hides you from the world and the world from… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.” Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately. I… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not about what happens when you are alone, but what happens when you are with others. It is about how… — Kim Fay Copy Share Image
“At work, cubicle three in the ladies’ cloakroom had become my retreat. There, I could hide away and silently sob whenever I… — Angie Langley Copy Share Image
“WE ARE FRITTERING AWAY TIME AND MONEY IN A MULTIPLICITY OF CONVENTIONS, conferences, and retreats, when the real need is to go… — Studd, C. T. (Charles Thomas Copy Share Image
I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“All you need is a little space and a little time—a place to work, and some time to do it; a little… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“The theologian Paul Tillich wrote that "loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude." Because the borderline finds solitude… — Jerold J. Kreisman Copy Share Image
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest;… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Okay. ‘Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In my old age (smirk), I seem to have become a creature of habit. I have order, schedules, quirky little activities I dig… — Rebecca Bloom Copy Share Image
Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
“Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself. If this sounds paradoxical, remember Rilke’s admonition:… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X.… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
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