Important Quote by Wislawa Szymborska

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing…

— Wislawa Szymborska

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible...

— Chris Hedges

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less,…

— Haruki Murakami

“For Pamela, dinner in solitude, especially the public solitude of hotels, was a punishment. Companionlessness and compulsory silence depressed her. Besides, she never felt…

— Aldous Huxley

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

— Marya Mannes

“As soon as we are alone,...inner chaos opens up in us. This chaos can be so disturbing and so confusing that we can hardly…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do…

— Sherry Turkle

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn,…

— Keith Miller

Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries.…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through…

— Pablo Neruda

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The…

— Sigmund Freud