Solitude Quotes - Page 11

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

A warrior balances solitude and dependence.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.

It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.