Paul Tillich Quotes

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

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.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.

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.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger.

When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.