Solitude Quotes - Page 23

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

I didn't choose solitude.

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.

When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul.

Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.