Quotes About Solitude

I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy room, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.

In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

I never said "I want to be alone." I only said,"I want to be left alone." There is all the difference.

Leisure time is when your wife can't find you

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

We're all in this together ... alone.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

There are three things a man must do alone. Be born, die, and testify.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

I was never less alone than when by myself.,

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.