Solitude

Solitude

• Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. —Paul Tillich

• Solitude is the school of genius. — Edward Gibbon

• In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. — Tibullus (d. 18 b.c.)

• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Thoreau

• I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. — Albert Einstein

• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. —Albert Einstein

• The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. —Edward Gibbon

• This great misfortune—to be incapable of solitude. — Jean de la Bruyere

• I hold this to the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke