“Loneliness is not about what happens when you are alone, but what happens when you are with others. It is about how… — Kim Fay Copy Share Image
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them,… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“Spend time with yourself. It is where everything begins. It is in this serene space of solitude that you will find clarity,… — Miya Yamanouchi Copy Share Image
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“She lives as if she is constantly on the brink of some great fulfillment. As if she were waiting for Prince Charming… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“lemme spell it out it's not an equation you're the border and i'm the nation you're talkin peace i'm under occupation so… — Antonio Pagliarulo Copy Share Image
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students.… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is… — Du Fu Copy Share Image
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal… — Fred Van Lente Copy Share Image
When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Because loneliness can kill you. And even if it doesn’t kill you physically—which it certainly can, disease of the psyche often leads… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
“If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I think that when people get lonely, they try to find someone to blame. But there isn’t really anyone to blame. It… — Caren Lissner Copy Share Image
“In solitude, you will find yourself; in crowds, you will find others! You need both of them: Solitude and crowds; yourself and… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Sometimes you never feel lonelier than when you are always doing tons of things and traveling all over the place. There is… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.” — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have always preferred isolation. Less chance of betrayal. Occasionally, as I get older, I wonder if perhaps it might once have… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Ayla loved these moments of solitude. Basking in the sun, feeling relaxed and content, she thought about nothing in particular, except the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
