SILENCE / SOLITUDE

Mark Twain
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Lao Tzu
Silence is a source of strength.

Jean-Paul Sartre
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Rainer Maria Rilke
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Woody Allen
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Erica Jong
Solitude is un-American.

Alan W. Watts
I owe my solitude to other people.

Epictetus
Silence is safer than speech.

Plato
I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

Aldous Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Goethe 
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself; it is a child of solitude. 

Emile M. Cioran
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.