Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“All lovers desire solitude in order to possess each other more completely. They create for each other a new universe inhabited by… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“in his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“At bottom, for me, the act of writing is a sort of dialogue with God. I say with God, but I am… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Loneliness sometimes help us to know how farther we can look out for ourself when no one is around, and to help… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
People think being alone makes you LONELY, But I don't think thats true. Being surrounded by wrong people is the loneliest thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess I always need some kind of solitude to get to that place where I am open enough and have zero… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I think if you really start practicing, the energy comes. I was always very happy and grateful for the opportunity to have… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“O, in the solitude of those mountains I feel free, free as the air, like a light blasting unharnessed through space. A… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them. Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all… — Stuart Woods Copy Share Image
“There are voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. —RALPH WALDO… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“I walked along singing, for when I am happy I am always humming to myself like every man who has no friend… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to step outside to be alone to think about where we are and where we're heading in life. To… — Brigitte Nicole Copy Share Image
“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more." ( Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
