Solitude Quotes - Page 33

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need solitude, and seek alienation of a kind every day of their working lives. (And remember, they are not even aware when and when not they are working.) ... The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.

In solitude all great things are born.

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when our numbers are this huge and out of control. I wonder, what's the carrying capacity for human beings? When do we get to the point when we can't take it anymore, when it becomes too unpleasant to us just to be here because there's too many of us and there's no solitude anymore.

Moments of solitude are the holiest moments to think wisely!

Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.

In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!

She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.