Martin Buber Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• Solitude is the place of purification.

  Martin Buber

  Single, Faith, Inspiration

  Martin Buber (2012). “I and Thou”, p.109, eBookIt.com

• Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.

  Martin Buber

  Mother, Distance, Book

  Martin Buber (1963). “Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman”

• In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Ice, Play

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.150, Routledge

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