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Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

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

Rooms Powerful Creativity Solitude Being Alone Seclusion Inspiring Writing

“The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.”

Thinking Real Artist Suffering Enjoy Creativity Strange Blessing Solitude Safe Conscious Curse Isolation Nurture Being Alone Singularity Real Artists

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.”

Ifs Doe Beautiful Artist Pleasure Creativity Fashion Beautiful Things Neighbour Being Alone Interference

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.”

Water Silent Depth Evening Doing Nothing Being Alone Seashore

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.”

Ifs Found Silence Spring Oneself Stranger Connected Core Silence Is Being Alone

Book:SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.”

Behinds Doors Conscious Charity Being Alone Acts Of Charity

Author:Peter Høeg

“The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.”

World Life Is Wonder Solitude Resources Depth Illness Access Cures Being Alone

Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.”

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.”

Men Life Dies Born Hell Solitude Consequence Karma Supreme Good And Bad Being Alone Wise Man Once Said Abode Brahman Bad Karma Good Karma Brahmins Born Alone Dying Alone Alone Man

Author:Chanakya

“Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.”

Life Inspirational Humans Reality Humanity Stars Peace Community Existence Yoga Plant Novelists Entity Being Alone Molecules Ubuntu Snowflake Raindrops

Book:Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook

Source: Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.”

“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.”

Mean Values Loneliness Self Esteem Bears Birth Solitude Companion Solitary Being Alone Single Being Single Loneliness And Solitude Being Quiet

Author:Eda LeShan

“Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.”

People Wells Causes Marriage Loneliness Married Lonely Actresses Cures Well Being Being Alone Single Being Single Wise Women

Author:Renee Jones

“Spend some time alone every day.”

Inspiration Solitude Buddhist Holiness Valentine's Day Being Alone Me Alone Alone Time

Author:Dalai Lama

“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.”

Men Art States Artist Creativity Primaries Distinction Being Alone Seclusion

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.”

Humans Feelings Inspiration Desire Force Behinds Creativity Creation Longing Motive Endeavor Being Alone Feeling Lost

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.”

Love Together Being In Love Being Alone Parting Dwelling Bye Good Bye Being Sad Being Together

Author:Elizabeth Bibesco

“I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.”

Knows Giving Feelings Felt Existence Being Alone Feeling Lost

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.”

Doe Turns Habit Slavery Valentine's Day Being Alone Family Love Happy Day

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.”

Needs Artist Courses Left Imagination Creativity Serious Aspiration Being Alone Left Alone

Author:Robert Genn

“Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.”

Artist Creativity Solitude Favour Being Alone

Author:Eric Maisel

“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.”

People Mind Existence Loneliness Lonely Being Alone Being Lonely I Am Lonely

Book:A doctor's visit: short stories

Source: A doctor's visit: short stories

“It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.”

Sometimes Hard Pain Fun Hurt Loneliness Cry Mines Lonely Sorry Loud Apology It Hurts Being Alone I Am Sorry Am Sorry I Am Lonely Lonely And Alone Sometimes It Hurts

Author:Stephen Stills

“When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.”

Men Heart Felt Loneliness Finals Being Alone Refrain Sparrows Hush Feeling Sad

Author:Don Williams

“It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.”

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.”

People States Loneliness Lonely Unions Being The Best Closest Being Alone Drains Alone Lonely

Author:Margaret Cho

“Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.”

Soul Opportunity Solitude Surprise Delight Holiday Being Alone Doing For Others

Author:Katrina Kenison

“Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.”

Ifs Humans Wells Trouble Solitude Surprise Focused Contact Curious Awake Excess Being Alone Loner Vigilant Shimmer Hidden Things

Author:Anneli Rufus

“Great minds think alone.”

Thinking Mind Wisdom Wise Greatness Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Meaningful Rapper Deep Thought Being Alone Great Minds

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.”

Source: God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift

“You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.”

“People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone.”

People Reason Hate I Hate Reason Why Nonsense Bullshit Hate You Being Alone I Hate You Fake People Fake Friends Loneliness And Solitude Fakeness

Author:Megan Fox

“When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.”

Life Is Solitude Lonely Being Alone Feeling Lonely Downtown

Book:So you want to be in the music business

Source: So you want to be in the music business

“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.”

Self Able Loses Solitude Advantage Being Alone Loneliness And Solitude

Book:Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals

Source: Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals

“There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”

Stills Wall Solitude Beats Wine Bitter Poison Solitary Being Alone Seclusion

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.”

People Problem Rich Loneliness Lonely Universal Being Alone Rich People Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Lonely People I Am Lonely Lonely And Alone Alone Lonely

Author:Joan Collins

“I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.”

Done Facts Loneliness Personality Ease Solitary Introvert Being Alone Loner Stand Alone Owing Loneliness And Solitude Standing Alone

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

Reality Wanted Space Loneliness Lonely Empty Cinema Entertaining Being Alone Empty Space

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.”

“Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.”

Source: Under Western Eyes

“I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.”

People Silence Talking Depends Solitude Machines Being Alone

Author:Celine Dion

“Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.”

Harder Blame Being Alone Living Alone

Author:Mason Cooley

“Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.”

Inspirational Moments Spiritual Process Prayer Vision Meditation Seeing Return Sacred Calm Hearing Breathe Stillness Calmness Being Alone Noticing Deepness Keenness

Author:Katrina Kenison

“It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.”

Solitude Spring Being Alone

Book:The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters

Source: The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters

“Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.”

Feels Should Feelings Being Alone Happy Single Happy Being Single

Author:Jason Derulo

“Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.”

Thinking Mean Doe Lonely Life Changing Changing Your Life Being Alone Better Person Being Lonely Changing My Life Being A Better Person Alone Lonely Lonely Life Life Is Changing My Life Is Changing Changing My Ways Meant To Be Alone

Author:John Spence

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