Quotes About Solitude

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

Isolation must precede true society.

Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.

I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.

To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.