Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The key aspect to remember is that only you can truly resolve your loneliness. Change can only come from within.” — Mary Jane Perruso Copy Share Image
I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present. — Gwen Davis Copy Share Image
Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep,… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can… — Tamim Ansary Copy Share Image
We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“From outside the evangelical community, this seems an astonishing confession. Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“Taking solitude in stride was a sign of strength and of a willingness to take care of myself. This meant - among… — Jenni Ferrari-Adler Copy Share Image
“…I tell you that loneliness itself is the secret. It’s a secret you cannot tell anyone. Why? Because to confess your loneliness… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She lives as if she is constantly on the brink of some great fulfillment. As if she were waiting for Prince Charming… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Two o’clock in the morning with a newborn is the loneliest hour in the world.” — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
“There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it. — Robert Downey, Jr 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
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“first strategy was known to the sages as the Ritual of Solitude.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
Feeling lonely means you have been alienated from yourself. Reconnect before you are lost. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
“Social hierarchy doesn’t hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.” — Elyse Draper Copy Share Image
