Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“If you met a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they had tried… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Quiet night. Silence at full capacity. Noiselessness is spilling over like a coffee cup full of jock cock. In a contact sport… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness... At work, they regarded her as a person apart... They imagined there must be more… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Independence is the luxury of all those people who are too confident, and busy, and popular, and attractive to be just plain… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples… — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“There’s no lonelier feeling than when a crowd of people is staring at you and there’s nowhere to hide. But you know… — Jay Ebben Copy Share Image
“Totally sucked into a whirlpool of silence. However, don’t want to fight the feeling.. Just learning how to enjoy the company of… — Sarah Adel Copy Share Image
But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, then have we found the perfect location… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
“Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that you don't need anyone, you can take care of… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.” — John Grogan Copy Share Image
“Learn how to be lonely. Learn what it’s like to know that you are coming home to yourself night after night- that… — Kristina Haynes Copy Share Image
There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Being alone is being away from others because you choose to. Being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“there is no such thing as loneliness. There is only the idea of loneliness…what lines, and what a strange concept-that the fear… — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness is a fact of life and pass up opportunities to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural.… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto Copy Share Image
“...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“The loneliness of flight is not entirely overwhelmed by cabin movies, the drinks, the Gemütlichkeit of shoulder-to-shoulder life.” — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
