Quotes about Solitude
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
— Andrew Murray
Everybody's friend is nobody's.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion is what you do with your solitude.
— William Temple
Your religion is what you do with your solitude.
— William Temple
My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
— William Tyndale
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
— William Wilberforce
And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.
— William Wordsworth
She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene, The memory of what has been, And never more will be.
— William Wordsworth
Therefore, let the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty-mountain winds be free to blow against thee.
— William Wordsworth