Solitude Quotes - Page 34

[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation, aloofness. Only the individual is a reality and only the individual is true. Maybe the process of isolation in an individual is one of the most important matters that exists. Is not the whole point of this world for people to separate and become individuals?

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

I feel like I veer more away from technology than toward it. I'm a little scared of the direction we're going, to be honest. It feels like a sci-fi novel from the '50s, the way we can control everything and the solitude we each have in our own little bubbles, and yet we feel like we have social interactions. We're moving in a weird direction, at least.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

This is to be along; this, this is solitude!

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find 'the ultimate questioner' - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.

Solitude is unquenched ego.

Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will do so." "Like yourself?" "Yes Most of my kind have no fondness for solitude. Those who walk alone are not to be trusted." "Really," she said dryly. "Except for me," he amended, with a faint, insouciant grin.

Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

The thought, the deadly thought of solitude.

Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour of the day. And as the hermit's evening hymn goes up from the deep solitude below me, I experience that serene exaltation of sentiment of which music, literature, and religion are but the faint types and symbols.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.