#solitude

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#am #become #been #bit #could

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#anguish #delivered #loneliness #needs #solitude

Solitude is independence. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#solitude

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#solitude #women

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #created #express #glory

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. ↗

— Zane Grey

#everyone #i #i can #night #retired

Solitude begets whimsies. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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