Quotes about Solitude
Solitude is sometimes best society.
— John Milton
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Solitude is sometimes the best society.
— John Milton
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
— John Ortberg
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
— William Hazlitt
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
— Teresa of Avila
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.
— Henri Nouwen
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
— Henri Nouwen
I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.
— Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria
The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
— Brennan Manning
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude…
— Albert Einstein