Quotes about solitude
solitude hell torment
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself. John Donne
solitude good-times spending-time
I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time. Gabrielle Union
solitude frightened humans
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness. Han Suyin
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 bears unbearable
Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves. John Lancaster Spalding
solitude inspired
One is inspired only in solitude. Gary Gilmore
solitude
This is to be along; this, this is solitude! Lord Byron
solitude
In solitude, when we are least alone.
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 absence complement
solitude is not absence of love, but its complement Paulo Coelho
solitude remains
What remains is solitude. Marlene Dietrich
solitude salt flavor
Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience. May Sarton
solitude adore thirst
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
solitude mind secrecy
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! Matthew Arnold
solitude world cures
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? Meg Rosoff
solitude secret degrees
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace. Maria Montessori
solitude facts
Solitude is the profoundest fact Octavio Paz
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 companionship sometimes
Solitude sometimes is best society. John Milton
solitude sometimes
Solitude is sometimes best society.
solitude fiction existential
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. Jonathan Franzen
solitude poet emily
[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness. Joyce Carol Oates
solitude quality ifs
If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
solitude tranquil
I love tranquil solitude. Percy Bysshe Shelley
solitude waste solitary
I love all waste and solitary places.
solitude may
One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.
solitude originality absurd
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. Thomas Mann
solitude secret desire
I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face. Thomas Merton
solitude rebel failing
Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.