Most people want solitude because they want to discover their unconditioned freedom, where they are free of all definitions.

William Irwin Thompson

Solitude is freedom. It is an anchor, an anchor in the void. You are anchored to nothing, and that is my definition of freedom.

John Lilly

If we can be perfectly quiet and perfectly still with no attempt to overcome, destroy, remove, or escape from any situation or condition, the flow to the Spirit will rush in and there will be freedom.

Joel S. Goldsmith

The strong grows in solitude
where the weak withers away.


Khalil Gibran

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It is the light of grace for me. Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

Peter Hoeg

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man.

Thomas De Quincey

Privacy, ultimately, is a migration to solitude - to that place where we are fundamentally by ourselves, some measure of privacy is essential to our souls.

Sue Halpern

As far as the search for solitude is concerned, we live in a negative atmosphere as invisible, as all-pervasive, and as enervating as high humidity on an August afternoon. The world today does not understand, in either man or woman, the need to be alone.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

All who seek the roots of life dig in solitude for them.


C. H. A. Bjerregaard

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

Goethe

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

James Russell Lowell

You do not need to leave your room, remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka

The best thinking has been done in solitude.
The worst has been done in turmoil.


Thomas Edison

The greater part of our lives is spent with ourselves, no matter where or with what other people we may live, our imagination is the only companion chained to us for the whole of existence.

Charlotte Wolff

Talent is best nurtured in solitude.


Goethe

Nothing determines who we will become
so much as those things we choose to ignore.


Sandor Minab

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they cannot find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

I know God will not give me anything I cannot handle.
I just wish that He did not trust me so much.


Mother Teresa

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.


Alexander Hamilton

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

James. B. Conant

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are a minority of one.

E. Paul Torrance

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream,
but it takes a live one to swim upstream.


W. C. Fields

If you are not afraid to face the music,
you may someday lead the band.


Spuk Tiding

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

Duc de la Rochefoucauld

To avoid criticism,
do nothing,
say nothing,
be nothing.


Elbert Hubbard