Solitude Quotes · Page 68

There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.

— Catherine Reitman

“Self-improvement is possible only through time conversion in solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

— Paulo Coelho

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

— Albert Camus

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

— David Foster Wallace

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

— Karl Kraus

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

— Brendan Dooling

One can't live in solitude. To survive as a single family unit is not possible.

— Nushrat Bharucha

“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious…

— Tom Robbins

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought…

— Theophile Gautier

“We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity.”

— Sara Maitland

“A loner, by nature, burdens no one with their existence. By avoiding entanglements with others, they cause no harm. We are extremely…

— Wataru Watari

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

— Anonymous

“. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]”

— Shirley Hazzard

“Everyone around me was allowed, permitted to fall apart; yet I had to think twice. I couldn't bear to take another dip…

— M.B. Dallocchio

I arise to day... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home…

— John O'Donohue

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with…

— Holbrook Jackson

“Solitude removes us from the mindless humdrum of everyday life into a higher consciousness which reconnects us with ourselves and our deepest…

— Neel Burton

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“we fear solitude. We mistake it for loneliness and attempt to fill the emptiness, the silence with activity and noise and people.…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Being alone is a choice, Gabby. You can either invest in people's lives-and I'm talking quality not quantity-or you can seclude yourself…

— Christy Barritt

“By solitude the soul escapes from doing or suffering magic; it escapes from dullness, from boredom, by being aware. Nothing is boring…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“In any love-story there are usually two stages or phases. There is the initial stage, where love is expressed by the giving…

— Raniero Cantalamessa

“I’m broken. We’re all broken and right now we’re all isolated within that brokenness. The cure for the loneliness is connection—connection with…

— L.M. Browning

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

— John D. Voelker

“With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren…

— Jo Ann V. Glim

The loneliest part in someones life is when thirwhole world is falling apart and all they can do is stare blankly... :/

— Anonymous

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather…

— John of the Cross

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

— Molly Haskell

Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.

— Jack Kornfield

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

— Jeremy Collier

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

— Beryl Markham

There's an incredible amount of loneliness that comes with child stardom because you're isolated from your society.

— Cole Sprouse

Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless. And lonely is healing if you make it.

— Tanya Davis

Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

— C. S. Lewis

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach…

— Mansur Al-Hallaj

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

— Samuel Beckett

“I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.”

— Ben Greenman

The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you.

— Anonymous