“Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Emotion is weakness. It sensitizes you to the trivial and blinds you to the important. Only in detachment can decisions be made… — Joseph R. Lallo Copy Share Image
Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually… — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your… — R.J. Ellory Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with… — Barbara Erakko Taylor 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
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“As we walk away I know they’re watching, these two men who aren’t yet permitted to touch women. They touch with their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar,… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
To have any sort of community is so, so important for humans. I think that I forget that sometimes because I definitely… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
“they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.” — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a strength. Especially if it means you will never use somebody as a rebound, or for the sake of filling… — Sophie Lianne Copy Share Image
So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Often... Those who wear themselves thin to meet everyone's needs can end up feeling the most alone.. just like a lighthouse that… — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others,… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
“Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired;… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Most religions have always appreciated the extreme power of concentrated thought directed toward the benefit of others, especially when that person is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
“I’m watching the rainbows rising from the far water place lost in the artificial light of midnight. I’m watching birds flying hither… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“Crowd is a gold mine, you can find many treasures over there; solitude is a gold mind, you can find many treasures… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
