"Solitude is un-American."

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"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Solitude, Night, Alone, Stars, Isolation

"This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Solitude, Peace, Healing, Self

"A wounded heart needs aloof."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Solitude, Healing, Truth, Power, Today

"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."

David Levithan, American Author

Solitude, Loneliness, Acceptance, Desire, Alone

"Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Solitude, Pain, Isolation, Waiting, Desire

"The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Time, Opportunity, Value

"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Treasure, Value, InnerPeace

"In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Solitude, Listening, Voice, Sacred

"Alone! yesterday, today and forever."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Solitude, Loneliness, Isolation, Emotion

"I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Solitude, Loneliness, Companionship, Pain

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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Risk

"We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it."

Suffering

"Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.With your own voice,' he said."

Creativity

"All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone."

Literature

"Most people in this country are looking for literature that is useful. They feel that just exploring their feelings is good enough - they should be reading about leveraged buy-outs or how to get thin. We live in a culture that is so absolutely, madly focused on commercialism and on creating money and completely turned away from any other kind of creative value. People don't generally turn to poetry unless they're bereaved or have fallen in love. Or in adolescence, when their feelings are very strong and turbulent. I think most of us are dying for lack of spirit in this culture."

Culture

"When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other, we clearly have a perfect, self-replenishing machine for the continuation of sexism. Unable to turn our assertiveness against men, we turn it against each other. Thus we remain stuck in the troubles we always had. It is imperative we renovate the machine -- no, not renovate it, but smash it entirely, so that we allow women to be all they need to be."

Equality

"You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty."

Psychology

"Singularity shows something wrong in the mind."

Mind

"Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper."

Writing

"But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said.On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop.But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?'Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood."

Philosophy