Quotes About Solitude

The friend of silence comes close to God.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust...

Passion is pushing myself when there is no one else around-just me and the road.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups

When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone.

Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude…

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.