Zitat des Tages über Einsamkeit / Solitude:
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.
Solitude is the place of purification.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
