Anxiety Quote by Sigmund Freud

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Brigitte Bardot

There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other…

— Paul Goodman

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

— Herbert Marcuse

“These days we have insulated ourselves from the sounds of other people and nature. From infancy we are training young children to expect near…

— John Durant

Frightening things happen in solitude.

— Michael Finkel

We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at…

— Maya Angelou

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

— Andre Maurois

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the…

— Richard J. Foster

“Solitude is mental growth”

— Allison Mierop

There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude,…

— Rachel Nichols

How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it…

— Gaston Bachelard