Quotes about Solitude

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.

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

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..

I think, therefore I'm single.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer: to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.1 —ANDREW MURRAY