A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
“Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took… — Mary Stewart 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
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
“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
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
“And now, a year has passed since I undertook to go to war, and I wake every day, sweating, in the solitude… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Samoća nije živeti sam, samoća je kad nismo sposobni da pravimo društvo nekome ili nečemu što se nalazi duboko u nama, samoća… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists,… — Toni Morrison 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 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
But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone… — Abdellatif Laabi Copy Share Image
The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
“What an ambiance, and such a pity I'm alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." [ Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak , 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)]” — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to be in solitude with yourself, listening to your own heartbeat and acknowledging the brilliance God created as you.” — Valerie Winrow Copy Share Image
You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrate things and find God… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
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
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
I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity… — Bohumil Hrabal 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
“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 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
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
Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day,… — Leon Redbone Copy Share Image
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