Quotes about Solitude
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
— Thomas Merton
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.
— Thomas Merton
leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing
— Anne Frank
Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
— John Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
— Dallas Willard
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
— William Faulkner
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
— William Hazlitt
My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.
— David Brainerd
I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.
— Billy Graham