Solitude Quotes - Page 10

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company.

Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

All alone by the telephone.

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

There is much to be said for solitude.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

In Silence there is eloquence.

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.