(232 quotes found)
“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“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.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.”
Paul Tillich
“Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.”
Thomas Merton
“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.”
Sabrina Ward Harrison
“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Solitude is the place of purification.”
Martin Buber
“Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.”
Robert Browning
