Solitude Quotes - Page 27

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

The most incredible thing is that so much happens outside of the will. You can't will anything. Not even solitude is an act of will. You simply endure it. You must hold on until the very end, without weakening. You can do nothing else. But you must not believe that because you accept being nothing, you are anyone special.

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

alone, adj. In bad company.

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.

I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late afternoon