Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your… — Alice Koller Copy Share Image
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood. Here between sea and sea in a fairy wood,… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
When I finished reading '100 Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I got really sad. I thought, 'This will never happen… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude,… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I wasn't lonely. Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“Winston stopped reading for a moment. Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered. The blissful feeling of being alone with the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Part 7: A Quiet Life “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think.… — George Ilian Copy Share Image
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had… — Gabriel Garcia Márquez Copy Share Image
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
“Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“And no one realizes we should all, always, look like that, each with his eyes full of horror at his own, inescapable… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Quietude As music is not in the notes, but in the silence between the notes, the real joy of life is not… — Amar Ochani Copy Share Image
“You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back. . .… — Dennis Patrick Slattery Copy Share Image
“People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it's deadness.… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“It was never a gift; it was refuge. It was his hole. A coffin he crawled into. And now it’s like the… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it’s when we’re busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“No place for illusions here. The beat doesn't stop solitude, it doesn't cure pain, you can't telephone it - it's simply a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“... The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
“But perhaps these are the very hours during which solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
