Quotes about Solitude

It is both relaxing and invigorating to ... set aside the worries of life, [and] seek the company of a friendly book...

Solitude is for the strong, or for those who are ready to become strong. When a man is becoming great, he becomes solitary. He goes in solitude to seek, and that which he seeks, he finds, for there is a Way to all knowledge, all wisdom, all truth, all power. And the Way is for ever open, but it lies through soundless solitudes and the unexplored silences of man's being.

As the body cannot thrive on empty husks, neither can the spirit be sustained on empty pleasures. If not regularly fed the body loses its vitality, and, pained with hunger and thirst, cries out for food and drink. It is the same with the spirit: it must be regularly nourished in solitude on pure and holy thoughts or it will lose its freshness and strength, and will at last cry out in its painful and utter starvation.

It is in solitude only that a man can be truly revealed to himself, that he can come to understand his real nature, with all its powers and possibilities. The voice of the spirit is not heard in the hubbub of the world and amid the clamours of conflicting desires. There can be no spiritual growth without solitude.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

You must do it alone.

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)