“If we seek solitary retreat, you will be more often refreshed.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Solitude helps you to convert your time into the clarity of purpose.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places. — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone. — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally… — Tonya Sheridan Copy Share Image
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The windows let in a perfect light, a vibrant light such as you get in the north, where a kind of grey… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
“I hastened,..., back to London,...; for here you have the advantage of solitude without its disadvantage, since you may be alone and… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
When you are alone you are not alone, you are simply lonely and there is a tremendous difference between loneliness and aloneness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives… — Tesla Copy Share Image
“I become a transparent eyeball,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Nature.” “I am nothing; I see all.” Lord Byron called it “the… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Writing is no more than wending a way in an attempt to restore all of the paths that had been cut-short, headed… — Mary Cappello Copy Share Image
“An Egyptian monk, after fifteen years of complete solitude, received a packet of letters from his family and friends. He did not… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“No retreat, no way around, one has to take their fight to the end.” — Trygve Gulbranssen Copy Share Image
“Eagles remind us of the power of solitude and reflection, as they retreat to high places to rest and renew their strength” — Dr. Lucas D. Shallua Copy Share Image
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude. — Alfred Polgar Copy Share Image
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
I'm not going to talk to you for awhile. I need you to miss me. I need you to appreciate having me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering. — Townes Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
