In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a very real thing, but it only means even you don't want to be with yourself” — Sumit Singh Copy Share Image
I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“I spent half my childhood in the shadows. Hiding from my father or my brother. Creeping from a place of solitude to… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
It's lucky that my life outside of work is so mellow; I'm really a homebody and a hermit, so I don't have… — Melissa Benoist Copy Share Image
“I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Distance seems to be bad for some but not for me. It gives solitude and space. It tests patience, endurance and faith.… — Jey Lopez Copy Share Image
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.” — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The value of solitude—one of its values—is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“A light and intermittent snowfall kept my world white over the next several days. The air was fresh and pure, nature's white… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
“As with Jack, the discriminating milieu of loneliness moved Hugh to raise the stakes of solitude, not from a wish to spare… — Edward Cline Copy Share Image
The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms… — William Kean Seymour Copy Share Image
Many people are feeling lonely because they build walls instead bridges. — Sonal Gupta Copy Share Image
Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability. — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
“Unless a writer's capable of solitude, he should leave books alone and go into the theater.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Being lonely isn't having no one around you, it's the feeling that there is no one around you who cares. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“Do not worry solitude is friendly at least it is more bearable than the company of hypocrites” — Yasser Kashef Copy Share Image
“But loneliness doesn't leave bruises or scars. At least not the kind you can see.” — Alexis Harrington Copy Share Image
“Solitude time is a period when you actually turn your time into some treasure.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image