Quotes about solitude
solitude whimsy begets
Solitude begets whimsies. Mary Wortley Montagu
solitude persons mines
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine. Martha Beck
solitude world noise
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world. Oswald Chambers
solitude made capacity
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves. Michel de Montaigne
solitude boring wells
If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well. Mark Twain
solitude weapons way
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. Frank Muir
solitude beast grows
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. Friedrich Nietzsche
solitude may speak
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
solitude trying down-and
Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude. Jose Mujica
solitude tears
Tears do not burn except in solitude. Emile M. Cioran
solitude doing-nothing waste
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.
solitude protect ifs
You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.
solitude sin purity
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
solitude independence longing
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. Hermann Hesse
solitude usefulness
In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness. Henri Nouwen
solitude transformation furnaces
Solitude is the furnace of transformation.
solitude aliens realizing
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
solitude vastness void
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth. Helene Cixous
solitude dangerous
Nothing is more dangerous than solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
solitude fine definite
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
solitude facts
Solitude is the profoundest fact Octavio Paz
solitude poverty virtue
The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude. Mencius
solitude feelings guilt
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt. Melody Beattie
solitude be-good company
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
solitude
... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. Rainer Maria Rilke
solitude trying cost
it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.
solitude ends needed
What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.
solitude able hours
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.
solitude
I implore those who love me to love my solitude.
solitude solitary ifs
Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.
solitude wedding-day good-marriage
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.
solitude together may
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. Neil Gaiman
solitude hours duty
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself. Margaret Fuller