Failing Quote by Thomas Merton

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

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 shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

— Robert Cecil

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 can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of…

— Abraham Cowley

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— James Russell Lowell

“For solitude confers a twofold advantage on the intellectually superior person; first of all, being on his own, and the second, not being with…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson