“But to me, it's a whole lot more important to find something that makes you unafraid of being alone, rather than to… — Mitsuyo Kakuta Copy Share Image
It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a source of loathsome ice-cold suffering, the suffering of unreality. At such times we need people to teach us that… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A person who is in the elements of his own is often thrown to a situation to be shown all alone; and… — Anuj Copy Share Image
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, the other characteristic of modern man, is even more basic than emptiness and loneliness. For being “hollow” and lonely would not… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Raven had been shunned and abandoned throughout his life. Friends often came and went without a word or worse, they toyed with… — Amanda M. Lyons Copy Share Image
“suffering in the midst of the vast city from solitude so acute that not even the narcotic of late-night television talk shows… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“The value of solitude—one of its values—is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“Solitude my solace, wrapped around me like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books and I can sing as loud as I… — Jeannine Hall Gailey Copy Share Image
“Claire knew the flavor of solitude. It was cold as spring water, and not all could drink it; for some it was… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone. Alone, alone! But… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Copy Share Image
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“one’s neighbors, and think about God—if these are the things one has decided are worth pursuing. But it is difficult to accomplish… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough!… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
“If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the… — Siren Waroe Copy Share Image
As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“One has to know what it is to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“For those of us who have felt this broken piece that has left us unable to mate as others seem to do,… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
“As for loneliness, it too has deep roots in selfishness, for its anguish stems less from having no one with whom to… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
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