Quotes about solitude
solitude labor
Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor. Honore de Balzac
solitude moral resources
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
solitude speak given
We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself. Jacques Derrida
solitude
There is a society in the deepest solitude. Isaac Disraeli
solitude telephones all-alone
All alone by the telephone. Irving Berlin
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 hell torment
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself. John Donne
solitude companionship sometimes
Solitude sometimes is best society. John Milton
solitude sometimes
Solitude is sometimes best society.
solitude debate truth-is
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude. Leo Tolstoy
solitude bears unbearable
Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves. John Lancaster Spalding