“Social hierarchy doesn’t hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.” — Elyse Draper Copy Share Image
“When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.” — bell hooks Copy Share Image
It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. —Sir Thomas Browne” — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
“Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? Freedom, or power over an entire nation? A little… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our… — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own.… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Not to mention the loneliness. And at the same time, the crowdedness. The never being really alone, just to think, to rest… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove,… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort… — Mooji Copy Share Image
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“It was somehow clear, even then, that the monster had been lonely. The folds above its eye made the old face look… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“I never went downstairs to join my housemates around the television. I cooked dinner later than everyone else and carried the plate… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
