Logo
Quote by Eric Hoffer
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but fro

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. – Eric Hoffer

Other quotes by Eric Hoffer
Other Quotes from
Solitude
category

I’m not anti-social. I’m pro-solitude. – Author Unknown

Category:
Solitude

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Category:
Solitude

I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened Briars; go out upon that, build yourself a hut, and there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. I see no alternative, no other hope for you. – William Ellery Channing

Category:
Solitude

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. – Edward Hoagland

Category:
Solitude

Random Quotes

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Experience

I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than Ive ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children. – Criss Angel

Category:
Freedom

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. – Paul Dirac

Category:
Equality

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. – John Morley

Category:
Religion