Thomas Merton Alone Quotations

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.