Quotes About Solitude

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.

Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don't. And mend what I've broken.

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Every night is a time for drink.

Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.