Solitude Quotes - Page 26

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself!

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

I'd rather be home alone, painting.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

In solitude, when we are least alone.

I'm not afraid to talk about God and it's something I have a faith in. But I feel his presence more in those really profound, quiet moments of solitude. I can't seem to get those as much around here in Nashville, so I go to seek them out. Iceland is probably the closest I ever felt to it. That place did a lot for my soul.

My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.