Quotes by Solitude Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied. Florida Scott-Maxwell solitudeagepeople I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former. Florida Scott-Maxwell alivesolitudereal The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship. Frances J Roberts crowdssolitudesoul Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without. Francis Atterbury encounterssolitudemean Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me. Fernando Pessoa companysolitude If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. Francois de La Rochefoucauld finding-peacesolituderelationship The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. Francis Bacon solituderealfriendship True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by. Francois de La Rochefoucauld solitudebraverymean 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 solitudeweaponsway But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness. Francis Bacon true-friendsolitudereal I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. Franz Kafka solitudewritingmen Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! Fred Van Lente solitudedifferentjourney Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing. Fred Rogers solitudelonelyloneliness I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one. Freema Agyeman solitudebelievepromise The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body. Franz Kafka solitudemennight He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken. Francois de La Rochefoucauld societysolitudepeople You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude. Frederick Lenz laughtersolitudeassociation On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks! Friedrich Nietzsche eaglessolitudetree Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man. Franz Kafka solitudehumilitymen The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame. Friedrich Nietzsche opinionsolitudemen«89101112131415161718»
