Coming home Quote by John O'Donohue

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

— Brigitte Bardot

Solitude is the nest of thoughts.

— Vikrant Parsai

To be open to creativity, one needs the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

— Rollo May

“Solitude has the potential to bring the best thoughts to you. When you are not involved in the emotional, entangled in the sentimental, and…

— Alok Mishra

“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

“Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other’s presence with a strange absent-mindedness…

— Fernando Pessoa

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being…

— Rollo May

Frightening things happen in solitude.

— Michael Finkel

“We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude. In my fear to be alone, I…

— Scott Stabile

The thought, the deadly thought of solitude.

— John Keats

“The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed.”

— Tonya Sheridan

Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must…

— May Sarton