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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels…

— Anonymous

“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

“Solitude has the potential to bring the best thoughts to you. When you are not involved in the emotional, entangled in the sentimental, and…

— Alok Mishra

“For solitude confers a twofold advantage on the intellectually superior person; first of all, being on his own, and the second, not being with…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

— Henri Nouwen

Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.

— Alix Kates Shulman

“Loneliness is painful; Solitude is peaceful. Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to respect others in their uniqueness and…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just…

— May Sarton

“The value of solitude—one of its values—is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing…

— May Sarton

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

— Robert Cecil

The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are…

— Suzanne Gordon