And love Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of…

— Thomas Merton

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only…

— Octavio Paz

There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left…

— Albert Camus

Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Day by day, the constant solitude drove him deeper inside himself, with only his thoughts for companions. Soon he might lose the capacity for…

— Sondra Allan Carr

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

— Charles Baudelaire

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come…

— Thomas de Quincey