“Think Creatively When we have a clear mind and quiet surroundings, our creative minds can run freely. There is no one to… — Ian Tuhovsky Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself,… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to be alone... We need to stay away from people.. Only for us to know, how they meant to… — Janet Reolope Copy Share Image
Loneliness could either go two way's. It might be what you exactly what you need at the time, To figure out something… — Simpleman Copy Share Image
St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
“...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes.… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table. GRACE: -Is that an order? CORNELIA: -I don't give orders to you, I make requests.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? Freedom, or power over an entire nation? A little… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our… — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Solitude The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that,… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.” Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately. I… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - -… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I discovered something I would inflict on myself several more times: the primacy of loneliness. If you’re working hard and lonely, or… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. [...] It hides you from the world and the world from… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“His anguish had grown skeletal in its solitude. He wished it didn’t have to be so, that one could ingest pain and… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“All you need is a little space and a little time—a place to work, and some time to do it; a little… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“At work, cubicle three in the ladies’ cloakroom had become my retreat. There, I could hide away and silently sob whenever I… — Angie Langley Copy Share Image
“WE ARE FRITTERING AWAY TIME AND MONEY IN A MULTIPLICITY OF CONVENTIONS, conferences, and retreats, when the real need is to go… — Studd, C. T. (Charles Thomas Copy Share Image
I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
![“CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table. GRACE: -Is that an order? CORNELIA: -I don't give orders to you, I make requests. GRACE: -Sometimes the requests of an employer are hard to distinguish from orders. [She sits down]” quote by Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/tennessee-williams-745_need-for-love_cornelia-sit-down-don-t-leave-the-table_2504902.png)
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