Creativity Quote by Thomas Mann

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, 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

“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

“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

“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

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

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.”

— Octavio Paz

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 is the echo of the soul when all the world grows quiet.”

— Saichkara

“We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity.”

— Sara Maitland

“True solitude is the home of the person, false solitude the refuge of the individualist.”

— Thomas Merton

“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