Franz Kafka Quotes

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

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

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

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

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.

Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

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.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

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

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

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.

I am then never less alone than when alone

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

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

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

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.