Community Quote by Herbert Marcuse

When you can bear your own silence, you are free.

— Mooji

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

— Joseph Cook

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

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

“Silence doesn’t have to be a major pilgrimage into the wilderness in order to find a solitary space. Everyday tasks such as driving around…

— Ed Cyzewski

“For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when it is…

— Barbara Erakko Taylor

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no solitude in nature.

— Friedrich Schiller

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness…

— Brennan Manning

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the…

— Richard J. Foster

Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life…

— Thomas Merton