“One can be alone without being lonely. And lonely without being alone. (Rosemary)” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” — Bruce Bryans Copy Share Image
“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is one thing, solitude another: you have learned that - now!” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In triumphs, I found my weakness. In low moments, I found my real strength. In silence, I found my True Self. — Ces Peta Copy Share Image
Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Without solitude true happiness was impossible. The fallen angel was faithless to God probably only because he longed for solitude, which angles… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“One of the issues about the whole ‘being alone’ stance is not having anyone to share the world’s problems with. A person’s… — Ayisha Malik Copy Share Image
“lemme spell it out it's not an equation you're the border and i'm the nation you're talkin peace i'm under occupation so… — Antonio Pagliarulo Copy Share Image
“Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students.… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Wherever she sought solitude, she was never alone. Suddenly that wasn't a bad thing. There was safety in numbers greater than one… — Nicki Salcedo Copy Share Image
“you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.” — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
I really like to be alone. It's nearly like being naked in the studio, and if someone were to walk in, that… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Your ability to overcome distractions will determine how long you can stay in solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
