“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity!” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things. — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When you're wearing headphones and you feel like everyone is calling you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Not loneliness, but solitude. Not suffering, but endurance, the discovery of grim kinship with the rocks and sky. And the finding here… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others,… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
“You can be a rich person alone. You can be a smart person alone. But you cannot be a complete person alone.… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a wind… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“I wasn't afraid of being alone, but I was afraid of what people would think about my solitary state. People, even well-intentioned… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two. — Hannah Copy Share Image
Isolation is an unspoken sickness...Don't go solo when you're down and So-Low... — Tyrese Gibson Copy Share Image
“Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.” — Ade Santi Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a kind of companionship in talking communally about loneliness. — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously… — Tricia Rhodes Copy Share Image
I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude. — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude? — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Solitude is the biggest medicine for once peace, It makes your heart pure and calm.” — Debolina Bhawal Copy Share Image
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude. — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
