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“Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is…

— Aldous Huxley

“A man becomes a solitary at the moment when, no matter what may be his external surroundings, he is suddenly aware of his own…

— Thomas Merton

“Hence in solitude, or that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathize not with us, we love the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the…

— Roman Payne

“But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what…

— Caspar David Friedrich

“I luxuriate more in a whole day alone; a day of easy natural poses; slipping tranquilly off into the deep water of my own…

— Virginia Woolf

“My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“When we create and share, we bare a little more of our soul to the world. That is one of our greatest strengths.”

— Andrew Pacholyk

“Be so full of love, so filled with joy, so illuminating, that others drown in darkness when not in your presence.”

— Mekael Shane

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

— Sara Maitland

“A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite 'naturally' within…

— Roland Barthes