Quotes about Solitude

Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

I didn't have any brothers or sisters, so I did a lot of stuff where I entertained myself playing games, reading a lot, a lot of fantasy novel stuff.

I look at Danny and Carolyn, the only other people in the room. It's time for me to go, alone and off the record. For years I've been constantly going, but never alone and never off the record. The Secret Service takes every step with me, and at least one aide is almost always there, even when I'm on vacation. A record is kept of where I am every hour.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.

a person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

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There was no life above the surface anyway.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

As a fringe benefit, practicing silent solitude enables us to sleep less and to feel more energetic. The energy expended in the impostor's exhausting pursuit of illusory happiness is now available to be focused on the things that really matter—love, friendship, and intimacy with God.

Silence is not simply the absence of noise or the shutdown of communication with the outside world, but rather a process of coming to stillness.

A strange feeling comes over you, when you see the silent candle burning.