Quotes About Solitude

We three, We're not alone, We're not even company— My echo, My shadow, And me…

I was alone. Alone with the wind and the sky.

We three, We're not a crowd; We're not even company— My echo, My shadow, And me… I

What you really want is freedom. Your own tree, your own room, your own small place in the sun.

Animals have simple needs, and all they want is to be left alone. We are the interlopers.

The sea has had Conrad and Stevenson and Masefield, but the mountains continue to defy the written word. We have climbed their highest peaks and crossed their most difficult passes, but still they keep their secrets and their reserve; they remain remote, mysterious, spirit-haunted.

Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river— There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.   The

Looking for a place to rest, he spotted an old churchyard and decided to stretch himself out on the steps. Pitamber planted himself down on a large stone slab and then, discovering it was a gravestone, got up in a hurry and joined Rusty on the steps. 'Is it unlucky to sit on a grave?' he asked, for he was of a superstitious nature. 'I don't think so,' said Rusty. 'The dead could probably do with a little company.

Being a misfit in a group of boisterous party-goers can be a lonely experience. But being alone as a matter of choice is one of life's pleasures.

But being alone as a matter of choice is one of life's pleasures.

This is the house of the closet-man. There are no rooms, just hallways and closets. Things happen in rooms. He does not like things to happen.

Again the desert, unpeopled, limitless, empty to the horizon.

Cuando Elías entró en la soledad y el silencio, una de las primeras cosas que debió tener en cuenta fue lo cansado, lo agotado que se encontraba a todo nivel.

Pero los tiempos de soledad y silencio no son tiempos para emitir juicios con respecto nuestra conducta. Son tiempos para darnos cuenta, para descubrir, la verdad sobre nosotros mismos en un momento dado, y entonces presentarnos a Dios con todo aquello que hemos notado.

Cuando incorporamos el descanso al tiempo que pasamos a solas con Dios, llegamos a experimentar un tipo de renovación muy profunda.

realidad, la historia de Elías nos enseña que si no le damos descanso a nuestro cuerpo, a nuestra mente y a nuestra alma, la travesía hacia la soledad y el silencio puede resultar algo excesivo para nosotros.

Cuando nos encontramos en un estado básicamente descansado, lleno de vigor, la soledad nos ayuda a mantener ese estado saludable, que no es poca cosa en un mundo que demanda tanto de nosotros.

El aprender a descansar en Dios en los tiempos de soledad comienza con el cuerpo, como la imagen del niño amamantado lo sugiere. Esta imagen me lleva a los momentos llenos de suavidad y ternura de mis primeros tiempos como madre.

Las prácticas de la soledad y el silencio resultan radicales porque nos desafían en cada nivel de nuestra existencia.

Podemos descansar confiadamente mientras ocupamos nuestro lugar debajo del arbusto solitario en medio del desierto de las propias dudas, interrogantes y anhelos no cumplidos, porque estamos en buena compañía.

But times of solitude and silence are not times for judging. They are times for noticing — noticing what is true about us in a given moment and then being in God's presence with the things we've noticed.

Most of us are more tired than we know at the soul level. We are teetering on the brink of dangerous exhaustion, and we cannot do anything else until we have gotten some rest...we can't really engage [any spiritual disciplines] until solitude becomes a place of rest for us rather than another place for human striving and hard work.

We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.

True love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.