Quotes about solitude
solitude innocence ifs
If you would live innocently, seek solitude. Publilius Syrus
solitude gregarious persons
Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more. Nelson Mandela
solitude ifs thoughtlessness
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. Leonardo da Vinci
solitude done suspects
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects Pablo Picasso
solitude together caged
There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together. Iris Murdoch
solitude companion ecstasy
Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished. Gerard Manley Hopkins
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 sometimes
Solitude is sometimes the best society. John Milton
solitude together may
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. Neil Gaiman
solitude originality intriguing
Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences Nikola Tesla
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 insurmountable
There is no insurmountable solitude. Pablo Neruda
solitude nostalgia hours
Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
solitude haughtiness roof
Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude. Plato
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 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 hours duty
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself. Margaret Fuller
solitude towels take-time
Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying. James Richardson
solitude benefits difficult
Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult. James Salter
solitude
There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter. James Anthony Froude