Happiness Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing is therefore more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, forced by its very nature to unfold, nourished by the fantastic visions of poetry, gives…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

— William Wordsworth

“the greatest danger which today’s humanity need fear is not a catastrophe which comes from out there somewhere, a stellar catastrophe, neither is it…

— Luigi Giussani

“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

It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of…

— Henri 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

“We carry our burdens all the time; we never die to them, we never leave them behind. It is only when we give complete…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value…

— Simone Weil

“Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness - an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It…

— Brené Brown

“We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity.”

— Sara Maitland

“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