{"quotes":[{"text":"Set a daily solitude time for reflection and rethinking.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["inner-peace","meditation","reflection","rethinking","solitude"],"id":2205,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I saw that for a long time I had not liked people and things, but only followed the rickety old pretense of liking. I saw that even my love for those closest to me had become only an attempt to love, that my casual relations -- with an editor, a tobacco seller, the child of a friend, were only what I remembered I should do, from other days. All in the same month I became bitter about such things as the sound of the radio, the advertisements in the magazines, the screech of tracks, the dead silence of the country -- contemptuous at human softness, immediately (if secretively) quarrelsome toward hardness -- hating the night when I couldn't sleep and hating the day because it went toward night. I slept on the heart side now because I knew that the sooner I could tire that out, even a little, the sooner would come that blessed hour of nightmare which, like a catharsis, would enable me to better meet the new day.","author":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","tags":["depression","solitude"],"id":2753,"author_id":"F.+Scott+Fitzgerald"},{"text":"The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["enjoyment","importance","pleasure","solitude"],"id":3235,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["loneliness","self-expression","solitude"],"id":3938,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["peace","poetry","silence","solitude"],"id":4925,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.","author":"Anzia Yezierska","tags":["being-alone","enjoying-life","enjoying-solitude","enjoying-the-little-things","happily-alone","happiness","hope","nature","positivity","romanticism","solitude"],"id":4945,"author_id":"Anzia+Yezierska"},{"text":"There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.","author":"Michael Finkel","tags":["solitude","woods"],"id":4953,"author_id":"Michael+Finkel"},{"text":"I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["humility","mercy","solitude"],"id":4990,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative.","author":"S. Usher Evans","tags":["romance","self-esteem","solitude"],"id":4992,"author_id":"S.+Usher+Evans"},{"text":"I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.","author":"Ben Greenman","tags":["loneliness","melancholy","ownership","solitude"],"id":6143,"author_id":"Ben+Greenman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1201,"pages":121,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}