To me, privacy is nothing if not the freedom to be let alone, to experiment and to make mistakes, to forget and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude. — Max Elliott Slade Copy Share Image
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“T]here arises an insight, which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I took another road, past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years. I went to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Unlike many other illnesses, what I find profoundly empowering about addressing loneliness is that the ultimate solution to loneliness lies in each… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D.… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I am always able to find that solitude. I am always able to find that peace. Which is tight. That is what… — J.I.D Copy Share Image
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
“Long have I dwelt forgotten here In pining woe and dull despair; This place of solitude and gloom Must be my dungeon… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
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“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude. — Sarah Mahoney Copy Share Image
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“[Slipped beneath the minnow Pea front door] Nollopton Monty No-way 6 Insane woman named Ella: Retreat is what we want. Go away.… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
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“On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
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