Book Quote by Edmond Jabes

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us…

— Dani Shapiro

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

Solitude is the nest of thoughts.

— Vikrant Parsai

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to…

— Junot Diaz

“To enter solitude, we must disregard what others think of us. Who will understand this call to aloneness? Even our closest friends will see…

— Richard J. Foster

Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

— Anonymous

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

— Henri Nouwen

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

— Anonymous

“In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the…

— Henri Nouwen

When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is…

— Tariq Ramadan