Quotes about Solitude

Nergens heb ik meer rust gevonden dan in bossen en boeken.

Be faithful to your secret place, and it will become your closest friend and bring you much comfort. In silence and stillness a devout person grows spiritually and learns the hidden things of the Bible. Tears shed there bring cleansing. God draws near to the one who withdraws for a while. It is better for you to look after yourself this way in private than to perform wonders in public while neglecting your soul.

O quam salubre, quam iucundum et suave est sedere in solitudine et tacere et loqui cum Deo!

It is better for you to live privately and take care of yourself than it is to neglect your soul even though you could work wonders in the world.

Love Jesus and keep Him as your friend. When all others forsake you He will not leave you nor will He allow you to perish on the last day. Whether you like it or not the day will come when you will find yourself separated from everyone and from everything.

Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.

The fewer there are who follow the way to perfection, the harder that way is to find

For a spiritual person, it is commendable to rarely venture out, avoid being seen, and have no desire to see others.

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

God is the partner of our most intimate soliloquies. That is to say, whenever you are talking to yourself in utmost sincerity and ultimate solitude--he to whom you are addressing yourself may justifiably be called God.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.