What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“A writer should be a recluse. Why share words with a few friends in the moment when they can be written down… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The loneliest moment in someones life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart and all they can do is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the worst pain that human can go through specially the period time when technology that is design to keep people… — Nadair Desmar Copy Share Image
The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“For all the virtues we profess, there is a savagery dormant in us waiting only for our fellow man to blink. It… — Tobias Wade Copy Share Image
When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don't know what it is to construct an entire… — Zoe Heller Copy Share Image
“We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I've questioned this goddamn place since i could talk, some of us have depth we can't quite understand until we are much… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A retreat from someone or something isn't unusual. Just as how you edge closer to see better, at times you may need… — Rajuda Copy Share Image
“What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“God save me from perfect strangers who feel obliged to chat with us and so transparently barrage us with feigned interest. Loneliness… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
“My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
It's a cinch to pass the time with you but hard to pass the time alone can you take it and it's… — Quicksand Copy Share Image
Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There is a terrible beauty to isolation. You don’t have to accept responsibility for others, or live up to their expectations. You… — Celia Stander Copy Share Image
I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if… — Ted Michael Copy Share Image
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know why you seek solitude. You suffer; I see it day by day. You sure you do not suffer needlessly? There… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
