Eugene Delacroix Quotes

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

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.

I've realised that I actually like being by myself.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

Certain things are so important that they need to be discovered alone.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.