Quotes about Solitude
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
— Joseph Brodsky
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
— John Barrymore
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
— Albert Camus
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
— Oswald Chambers
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.
— Henry David Thoreau
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
— Henry David Thoreau
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
— Henry David Thoreau
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
— Henry David Thoreau