Solitude is independence.
– Hermann Hesse
When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude,
and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new
warmth, adventure and wonder.
– John O’Donohue
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
– Laurence Sterne
One can be instructed in society; one is inspired only in solitude.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
– Paul Tillich
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult;
that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
The more powerful and original a mind,
the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
– Aldous Huxley
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness.
The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
– Paul Brunton
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
– Aristotle
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude,
and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
– Albert Einstein
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