Quotes About Solitude

I hadn't been a nerd, mind you. I'd just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.

If man will understand the real essence of staying in the solitude with his Maker alone, he will never spend all his time with the crowd always

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

No prince, no success filled her dreams: only time spread out before her to spend as she chose, a time of contemplation which offered her refuge.

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

the nights would be orphaned without the sound of crickets chirping.

Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.

It It only when I am alone that I really feel connected to the entire universe.

The emptiness, the way his heels rang on the asphalt, was satisfying, emphasised his aloneness. A man alone, alone late at night with no one to say he should be home in bed.

The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other people's time not his.

The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry inner-verse.

One of my favorite things to do is go running early in the morning when everyone in my house is still sleeping. I throw on my iPod, and it's, like, my time.

In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone.

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really.

Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

We learned that what happens when we are alone with the Lord determines how intimate and deep the worship will be when we come together.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall