Circumstances Quote by Aldous Huxley

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

— Robert M. Lindner

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but…

— Henri Nouwen

“And by it we enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. Only discord can come of the attempt to share solitude. True solitude…

— Wendell Berry

“Solitude, which is one of the most agreeable sensations of the natural man, is one of the most painful and alarming sensations of the…

— William J. Dawson

In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.

— Sherry Turkle

Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

— Anonymous

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

— William Wordsworth

“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being…

— Paul Tillich

“For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery depends very…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Solitude removes us from the mindless humdrum of everyday life into a higher consciousness which reconnects us with ourselves and our deepest humanity, and…

— Neel Burton

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s…

— Wendell Berry

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value…

— Simone Weil