Home » Quote » Franz Kafka » „Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.“ „Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.“ — Franz Kafka Tags:Solitude Related quotes „How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.“ — Hermann Hesse „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.“ — Rainer Maria Rilke „That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.“ — Paulo Coelho „I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.“ — Franz Kafka „O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.“ — Virginia Woolf „Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.“ — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley „There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but theseSociety shall be,Compared with that profounder site,That polar privacy,A Soul admitted to Itself:Finite Infinity.“ — Emily Dickinson „To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson
