The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The most incredible thing is that so much happens outside of the will. You can't will anything. Not even solitude is an… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
“(1) A Quiet Environment Ideally, you should choose a quiet, calm environment with as few distractions as possible. A quiet room is… — Herbert Benson Copy Share Image
Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
“Loss and loneliness, loneliness being the sadder and grayer of the two. Loss means that someone beloved is irretrievable, and as bad… — T.M. Goeglein Copy Share Image
“loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“And by it we enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. Only discord can come of the attempt to share solitude.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way… — Juliette Fay Copy Share Image
Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thought of attention made me want to hide in a closet. I wasn't a kid who liked attention. I liked solitude… — Daria Werbowy Copy Share Image
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
I spent years of being a ghost / Unsure of where home is anymore / I tell them I feel nothing /… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“It sounds ironic to say that the cure for loneliness is aloneness. I don’t mean that you should just make yourself more… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
