Isaac of Nineveh Quotes

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

Isaac of Nineveh

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• A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Family
  • Change
  • Places

• Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Friend
  • Creativity
  • Solitude

• The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Church
  • Lies
  • Old

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
  • Mountains
  • Places

• Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Places
  • China
  • Oil

• I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Choose
  • Shopping
  • Places

• Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Needs
  • Places
  • MGM

• Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hidden

• There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Solitude
  • Loneliness

• Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Places
  • Outsiders

• What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Live
  • Society
  • Cool

• Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Patience
  • Ego
  • Solitude

• In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Solitude

• The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Doubt
  • Creativity
  • Solitude

• It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Great
  • Experience
  • War

• Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • Solitude

• Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Pleasure

• I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Game
  • Mistake
  • Games

• T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild.

  

  William Collins
  • Sad
  • Starts

• I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Death

• Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • Solitude
  • Places
  • Hidden