Quotes About Solitude

I sat down on the bench and started playing, instantly lost in the perfection of the moment; I was elsewhere.

I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race, by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, equality of man before his Creator.

Music is your only friend

Thundering in my head; the sound of silence overwhelms.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Although, I thought I knew almost everything about camping out in odd places, I still have much to learn about the art of relaxing.

In your rocking chair by your window shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.

I have gone into the waste lonely places

I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel, or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

At times a man must cut loose from his associates and stand alone for a great cause; but the necessity for such action is almost as rare as the necessity for revolution.

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.

She was living in another dimension. It was lonely there. She

And, as a confessing introvert, I absolutely love shopping without people around.

If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on your calendar so you can be intentional about it. And for an hour or so, go to a place by yourself. Read, relax, or do nothing. No one is there to talk to you for those minutes. Enjoy your blessed aloneness for a brief season.

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

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

Nergens heb ik meer rust gevonden dan in bossen en boeken.

Be faithful to your secret place, and it will become your closest friend and bring you much comfort. In silence and stillness a devout person grows spiritually and learns the hidden things of the Bible. Tears shed there bring cleansing. God draws near to the one who withdraws for a while. It is better for you to look after yourself this way in private than to perform wonders in public while neglecting your soul.

O quam salubre, quam iucundum et suave est sedere in solitudine et tacere et loqui cum Deo!

It is better for you to live privately and take care of yourself than it is to neglect your soul even though you could work wonders in the world.

Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.

The fewer there are who follow the way to perfection, the harder that way is to find