“...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
The state of being alone is truly invigorating. One should get accustomed with that in a slow and steady manner. However, it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity. — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“A light and intermittent snowfall kept my world white over the next several days. The air was fresh and pure, nature's white… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
“As with Jack, the discriminating milieu of loneliness moved Hugh to raise the stakes of solitude, not from a wish to spare… — Edward Cline Copy Share Image
The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their… — Mencius Copy Share Image
“Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is the way it's always been: bad with large numbers. It is still… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people, as well. We leave TVs on in our house. I… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to… — Cheryl Rainfield Copy Share Image
“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“The corner doesn't mind listening to the stupid things I say; Sometimes it's the only one keeping me from running away. And… — Margo T. Rose Copy Share Image
One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you… In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
“Only in a state of solitude, when you willingly stay face to face with God, can He help you to open yourself,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where… — Molière Copy Share Image
For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“I believe solitude to be not only the unavoidable human condition but also the sensible human preference." ― Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision:… — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
Being isolated at times doesn't always mean that you want to distance yourself from others; it simply means that you need some… — Wazim Shaw 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
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not… — William Drummond Copy Share Image
“I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I reveled in solitude. If Lily wanted to believe there was a somebody out there just for her, I wanted to believe… — Rachel Cohn David Levithan Copy Share Image
If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The Soul [the Real Self] and the Gnan [True Knowledge] are always present in crowds, not in solitude. There is peace in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image