Quotes About Solitude

Better to go alone than to be badly accompanied. - Madame Dariaux

Loneliness isn't relieved in a crowd.

We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life.

Of necessity, theirs must often be an interior silence, surrounded as they were for much of the time by noise and restlessness. To make possible true interior silence she told her Sister they would practice

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company. - George Washington

You will take a long trip and you will be very happy, though alone.

I felt like the echo instead of the sound.

Like boulders rolled away from doors, like meteors, things rumbling in my brain ask me to go out like Moses into some wilderness.

It was quiet in the jungle, the kind of quiet that rings in your ears.

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

He wasn't afraid to die. He was afraid to die alone.

The man on the porch seemed to have brought his own clouds.

Arnold sat on his porch, watching the sun die a phoenix death, bruising the clouds as it struggled to stay afloat in the evening sky.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

He could be alone with her, but it was difficult learning to be alone without her.

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.

The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself.

Lonesome makes friends of strangers.

Will you be all right? Should I call somebody?" "No, no there's no one to call." You hear that, you usually feel for the person.

She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering longing in his eyes. Every fiber of her body told her to throw herself into his arms, but she knew what she had to do. She wanted to say, I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage; but instead she said: "I think I'm going to marry Alfred.

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

When you add the noise of the external world to all the roles you take in it, it is easy to lose sight of who you really are. To find your Element, you need to regain that perspective. One way is to create time and space to be alone with yourself, to experience who you are when no one else wants anything from you and the noise has stopped. One method is to meditate.

Everyone calls him Blockhead No one sings his praises Or takes him to heart... That is the kind of person I want to be