Burning Quote by Amy Carmichael

“Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end…

— Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ·

“Not loneliness, but solitude. Not suffering, but endurance, the discovery of grim kinship with the rocks and sky. And the finding here of a…

— Diana Gabaldon

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

— Norman Cousins

“And such was the return to which he had looked through the weary perspective of many years, and for which he had undergone so…

— Charles Dickens

There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man…

— Wendell Berry

“There is a certain kind of man who is forever searching. He wanders from place to place, he looks hard into the eyes of…

— Tara Conklin

For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of…

— Hermann Hesse

“ Solitude Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.…

— Alexander Pope

“... all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle his own…

— Han Suyin

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as a society…

— William Barrett