Our Solitude Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how to be in… — David Spangler
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a… — Emile M. Cioran
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared.… — Tariq Ramadan
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. — Robert Breault
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. — Henri Barbusse
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It… — Gaston Bachelard
How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is… — Gaston Bachelard
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of… — Jonathan Sacks
I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing!… — Henri Barbusse
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination,… — Eduardo Galeano
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our… — Hermann Hesse
A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is… — Henri Nouwen
Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles… — Ian Caldwell
We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. — Jeremy Collier
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extentunwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust itwe perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and… — EM Cioran

Who Wrote These Our Solitude Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Our Solitude Quotes as follows: