Solitude Quotes
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I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
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The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.
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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
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I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.
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The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
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Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
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Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
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I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
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I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
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One of the marks of maturity is the need for solitude: a city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace.
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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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I really do work in solitude.
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Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not!
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Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
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It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a life of solitude and loyalty and commitment to my work. I just don't prioritize my life in the same way that other people do. The only thing that matters is my music and my performance.
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The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.
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Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
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Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
