Solitude, a few quotations

It's easy to find praise of solitude.
Here are a few quotations:

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

Albert Einstein

Loneliness is the poverty of Self;
Solitude is the richness of Self.

May Sarton

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

The worst has been done in turmoil.

Thomas Alva Edison

Solitude is such a potential thing.
We hear voices in solitude,
we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life;
we receive counsels and comforts

we get under no other condition.

Amelia Barr

Great men are like eagles,
and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you can't stand solitude,
perhaps others find you boring as well.

Mark Twain

Waar ik van hou is een rustig leven,
met veel tijd voor mijn ziel.



The richness of solitude
and the pain of loneliness
sometimes gets blurred.