Quotes about Solitude
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
— Marilyn Monroe
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
— Henry David Thoreau
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
— Mother Teresa
The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World
— Henry David Thoreau
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.
— Celine Dion
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
— Thomas Merton
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned.
— Cormac McCarthy
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude
— William Wordsworth
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
— Vincent Van Gogh
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.
— William Wordsworth
...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.
— Paulo Coelho