Solitude Quotes - Page 19

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

Nothing is achieved without solitude.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

In the end all books are written for your friends.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.