To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“Wandering alone in the barrenness of foolishness, I hear the drip-drip of Wisdom and smile.” — Martin Cosgrove Copy Share Image
“And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.” — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
There are moments when, without Internet, even the non-solitaries would die from loneliness. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body.… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
“One thing time has not removed from me,” she wrote to Grover, “the last toughness of youth, and that is to live… — Caroline Moorehead Copy Share Image
Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of… — Nicholas Roerich Copy Share Image
I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative.” — S. Usher Evans Copy Share Image
Trucking-company terminals are places where paperwork gets filled out, driving orders are given, and partners are assigned. They can often be social… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“A community is not a place where 'desert fathers' are testing themselves - more and more, harder and harder, each on his… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
“I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“Solitude is the machine through which time can be converted into products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the perfect time for us to know deeply whose beside us. — Jayjay Guillermo Copy Share Image
There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I find more peace staying alone than always trying to go along with the crowd. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
