Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
~Henri Nouwen
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.
~K.T. Jong
Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
~Philip Larkin
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
~Henry David Thoreau
Solitude is not a way of running away from life … from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.
~Joan Chittister
I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
~Pearl S. Buck
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
~Albert Einstein
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
~Henry Miller
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Solitude matters, and for some people, it’s the air they breathe.
~Susan Cain
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more
~George Gordon Byron
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
~Hermann Hesse,
Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
~Kevin Patterson
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.
~Helen Hayes
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
~Karl Lagerfeld
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
~Paul Tillich
