#solitude

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#truth #uncertainty

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#solitude #loneliness

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#loss #moving-forward #solitude #the-yellow-house #life

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. ↗

— Rollo May

#quiet #solitude #creativity

I was alone in that room. Of course, there were bodies all around, but they were all dead. They were dead when I got there. Well, most of them were dead. The last few I had to strangle so I could enjoy some solitude.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bodies #body #death #enjoy #joy

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. ↗

— Russell Banks

#solitude #spend #time #total #working

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#own #solitude #strange #very

Solitude begets whimsies. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#solitude

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