Margaret Fuller Quotes

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

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem...a little crazy to you.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.

My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.