Absurd Quote by Thomas Mann

“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.”

— Thomas Mann

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite:…

— Thomas Mann

The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man;…

— Thomas Mann

“The observations and encounters of a man of solitude and few words are at once more nebulous and more intense than those of a…

— Thomas Mann

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the…

— Henri Nouwen

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

— Liv Tyler

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.”

— Thomas Mann

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless…

— John Ortberg

“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than…

— Thomas Mann

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

— May Sarton

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge…

— Jean Genet