Community Quote by Maurice Blanchot

Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of…

— Parker J. Palmer

“In solitude we can come to the realization that we are not driven together but brought together. In solitude we come to know our…

— Henri Nouwen

“Solitude The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that, freed from…

— Richard J. Foster

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

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

“A city uninhabited is different. Different from what a "normal" observer, straggling in the dark - the occasional dark - would see. It is…

— Thomas Pynchon

Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about the absence…

— Parker J. Palmer

To have any sort of community is so, so important for humans. I think that I forget that sometimes because I definitely enjoy my…

— Jenna Ortega

When we think of community, we think of some sort of nebulous, faraway group of people rather than the men and the women who…

— Alex Wagner

“The sense of community is that feeling of togetherness that brings us comfort. We are all alone in the world, so we strive to…

— Del Suggs

“Community, a place of healing and growth . . . When people enter community, especially from a place of loneliness in a big city…

— Jean Vanier

“Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, “society”, inevitably…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“if we don’t have experience with solitude—and this is often the case today—we start to equate loneliness and solitude.”

— Sherry Turkle