Youre all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while,… — Tanya Davis Copy Share Image
Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Solitude brings a calm mind. A calm mind brings peace. Peace brings contentment. Contentment brings joy and happiness. Meditate. — Tom Tucker Copy Share Image
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative. — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“As far I go away from myself to solitude I experience wiser &stronger.. Solitude is the most excellent place to get pleasure… — Manjula Jyothiprakash Copy Share Image
“I wasn't afraid of being alone, but I was afraid of what people would think about my solitary state. People, even well-intentioned… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a wind… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my solitude." ( Letter to Mimi Romanelli , May 11, 1910)” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and… — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste Copy Share Image
I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
“There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“Don't let a busy life or electronic communication gadgets be your excuse for excess solitude - it's a talent, but a rare… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
“You don’t fight with yourself when you live in solitude and the only reason people fall in love with themselves is that… — Bhavik Sarkhedi Copy Share Image
“Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it's the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“I was alone in that room. Of course, there were bodies all around, but they were all dead. They were dead when… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound -… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The root cause of loneliness is not the absence of another, but the absence of the awareness of our connection to our… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“To my children, I will say, ‘Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes bravery to be… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
Loneliness is, like, when you wish someone else was there, and solitude is when you enjoy being alone. I don't always wanna… — Jonathan Van Ness Copy Share Image
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
