#solitude

When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet ↗

— Strider Marcus Jones

#nothing #silence #solitude #writers-block #inspirational

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#creative #inspirational #solitude #inspirational

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#solitude #soul #men

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#independence #individuality #inspirational #self-assurance #self-awareness

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if hes does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#solitude #freedom

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#freedom #privacy #respect #solitude #freedom

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#i #live #maturity #painful #solitude

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#different #different kinds #kinds #love #love is

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#capable #consuming #health #more #nothing

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#crowd #depend #him #imagines #man