There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“Quietude As music is not in the notes, but in the silence between the notes, the real joy of life is not… — Amar Ochani Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it’s when we’re busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“No place for illusions here. The beat doesn't stop solitude, it doesn't cure pain, you can't telephone it - it's simply a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“In Japan, even when you're alone, you're never really that lonely. But the loneliness you feel living among people with differently coloured… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Naked solitude with neither gesture nor word. Transparent in the orchard, smooth as oil on the hill. Silent solitude with neither fragrance… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“You don’t know what it means to be betrayed! Should I explain it to you? It means to be treated like trash… — Yuuki Obata Copy Share Image
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“Solitude itself is a way of waiting for the inaudible and the invisible to make itself felt. And that is why solitude… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Some people search out solitude without even thinking that they need to do so--it's an innate urge with them, something that they… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
“... The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
“But perhaps these are the very hours during which solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“But to me, it's a whole lot more important to find something that makes you unafraid of being alone, rather than to… — Mitsuyo Kakuta Copy Share Image
To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a source of loathsome ice-cold suffering, the suffering of unreality. At such times we need people to teach us that… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A person who is in the elements of his own is often thrown to a situation to be shown all alone; and… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“It was never a gift; it was refuge. It was his hole. A coffin he crawled into. And now it’s like the… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hence in solitude, or that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathize not with us, we… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The Winter Miles The roads of solitude grow whiter, And stones beneath us paler, While the green fades completely — Ahead of us. Grey is… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“A broadcast about wolves, with recordings of their howls. What a language! The most heartrending I know, and I shall never forget… — Cioran Copy Share Image
“A lonesome town, though. He who had grown up alone had lately learned to avoid solitude. During the past several months he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
