Age Quote by Anonymous

“The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of…

— John Lubbock

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Solitude means withdrawal from an artificial and fictional level of being which men, divided by original sin, have fabricated in order to keep peace…

— Thomas Merton

“In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding... Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

— James Russell Lowell

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless…

— John Ortberg

“Solitude is the worst of punishments. It’s like waiting in the Death Row for your last supper and the final blow, the chair or…

— Magdalena Ganowska

“Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.”

— Thomas Mann

“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than…

— Thomas Mann

“The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can…

— Helen Waddell