
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.