Quotes About Solitude

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out.

I went to a restaurant and sat at the bar and ate by myself. I have my iPad, which is my favorite instrument of all time. I talked to a few people next to me. I'm just trying to be out. It's a little bit scary.

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

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.

There is something joyous about not talking.

As a goalkeeper, you have so much time back there where you're alone, and you're talking to yourself in your head.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

At home, I'm the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

I spent my whole childhood trying to find places to be on my own. I used to sit on the water tank in the attic or in the dog's kennel. I was quite a strange child.

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself. —TERESA OF ÁVILA

In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied. Psychiatrist Carl Jung once remarked, "Hurry is not of the Devil; it is the Devil."1

Solitude The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that, freed from competing loyalties, we can be found by God The

In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds.

Darkness is a definite experience of prayer. It is to be expected, even embraced.

Solitude is both a "vacation with God" and a "furnace of transformation." "The

In time, however, we find that solitude gives us power not to win the rat race but to ignore the rat race altogether.

Distraction is the primary spiritual problem in our day.

To enter solitude, we must disregard what others think of us. Who will understand this call to aloneness? Even our closest friends will see it as a waste of precious time and rather self-centered. But, oh, the liberty that is released in our hearts when we let go of the opinions of others!

Our own spiritual formation will be strengthened if, in our busy, crowded, and noisy lives, we find regular times and places for quiet, for prayer, for listening to God. Time alone with God gives us renewed energy to live fully engaged with the world again. Do