Quotes About Solitude

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.

I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.

There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

Most people can't stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them.

It is not good that the man should be alone.

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

There are no men like me. There's only me

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.