He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them,… — Timothee de Fombelle Copy Share Image
“To ease the loneliness of the bridges, visit them sometimes! The forgotten ones must be remembered! Create some memories with them so… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll be surprised...as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
You can be surrounded by many people but still feel quite lonely if you don't have strong connections and if you feel… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure… — Andrea Seigel Copy Share Image
“Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of… — James Jones Copy Share Image
Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We are the sons… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Eventually we find that we no longer need silence. We no longer need solitude. We no longer even need words. We can… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Connections are difficult. There’s an irritation in being among people who’ve already found their connection, and finding that those left who haven’t… — Jhonen Vásquez Copy Share Image
I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also,… — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
“Real relief from loneliness requires the cooperation of at least one other person, and yet the more chronic our loneliness becomes, the… — John T. Cacioppo Copy Share Image
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the… — Jewel Copy Share Image
There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness - an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil! Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from which you issued. Although all… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as… — Alice Koller Copy Share Image
“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's nt d loneliness dat makes, being alone unbearable… It'z accepting d fact, dat of the 7 billion ppl in d world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lonely people were not faking their symptoms. Their own bodies were reacting to loneliness at a cellular level, trying to nudge them… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“she and Mattia were united by an invisible, elastic thread, buried under a pile of meaningless things, a thread that could exist… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
