Needs Quote by Paul Brunton

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

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

— Octavio Paz

Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.

— Alix Kates Shulman

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

— Octave Mirbeau

Solitude is the strength of being alone. It's where we become our best company.

— Jay Shetty

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

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

— Victor Hugo

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

— James Russell Lowell

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

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 such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels…

— Anonymous