“For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralized enemy who is advancing in utter disorder.” — Eric Frank Russell Copy Share Image
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness?” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I… — Mark Richards Copy Share Image
“i will forever be colliding with a billion unnamed undiscovered stars, each of us on our own orbital paths.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion. — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
“True solitude is the home of the person, false solitude the refuge of the individualist.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“That was the state of the world when I began to be aware of my family environment, and I cannot evoke it… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a strange sort of thing. It creeps on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark, strokes… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Let me now raise my song of glory. Heaven be praised for solitude. Let me be alone. Let me cast and throw… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Often people request prayers for deliverance, inner healing, or physical healing. But more frequently they simply want a man or woman to… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“‟Whatever we may do or attempt, despite the embrace and transports of love, the hunger of the lips, we are always alone.… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood. But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
