Solitude Quotes

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Solitude may rust your words.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.[A solidão não é a ausência de companhia, mas o momento em que nossa alma tem a liberdade de conversar conosco e nos ajudar a decidir sobre nossas vidas.]

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

Solitude is frightful to a widow of twenty.[La solitude effraie une âme de vingt ans.]

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.

Often a man wishes to be alone and 1a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others.

My point is that you soon become lonely if you want to use your own brain to find answers.

Many believe that they need company at any cost, and certainly if a thing is desired at any cost, it will be obtained at all costs. We need to remember and to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone, at times it is pos- itively to be wished for. It is in the interludes between being in company that we talk to ourselves. In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.

Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away, you write, and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.[Lieben Sie Ihre Einsamkeit, und tragen Sie den Schmerz, den sie Ihnen verursacht, mit schön klingender Klage. Denn die Ihnen nahe sind, sind fern, sagen Sie, und das zeigt, daß es anfängt, weit um Sie zu werden.]

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.[Es ist gut, einsam zu sein, denn Einsamkeit ist schwer; daß etwas schwer ist, muß uns ein Grund mehr sein, es zu tun.]

In solitude there groweth what any one bringeth into it – also the brute in one’s nature. Thus is solitude inadvisable unto many.[In der Einsamkeit wächst, was Einer in sie bringt, auch das innere Vieh. Solchergestalt widerräth sich Vielen die Einsamkeit.]