Quotes by Solitude He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom. Arthur Schopenhauer freedom solitude love The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind. Arthur Schopenhauer solitude bears mind What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. Arthur Schopenhauer solitude hands people Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small. Arthur Schopenhauer personal-values solitude men Being an artist is being an isolated individual. Asger Jorn individual solitude artist Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude. Audrey Niffenegger solitude names mind Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. August Wilhelm von Schlegel axes solitude love Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. Augusten Burroughs focus solitude reading You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude. Austin O'Malley solitude character needs He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. Baltasar Gracian sage beast solitude You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before. Barbara Brown Taylor solitude silence missing Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth. Barbara De Angelis solitude serious silence No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary. Barbara Holland no-doubt solitude doubt Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen. Barbara Kingsolver solitude choices world Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. Bayard Taylor toil solitude heart I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison. Bell Hooks males black solitude Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work. Berthold Auerbach companion solitude healing Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors. Bertrand Russell errors solitude men We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. Bertrand Russell solitude advice world Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time. Bill Viola mystical-experiences solitude wisdom «1234567891011»
