Dreams Quote by Edith Pearlman

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

— Milan Kundera

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.”

— Octavio Paz

“We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity.”

— Sara Maitland

“I think solitude is less a conscious choice than an inevitable side-effect of certain life choices,”

— Juliana Buhring

“if we don’t have experience with solitude—and this is often the case today—we start to equate loneliness and solitude.”

— Sherry Turkle

“The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of reduced social…

— Bella DePaulo

“Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with…

— Paul Hoffman

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more…

— Wendell Berry

“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

— Anonymous

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

— Octavio Paz

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

— James Russell Lowell