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Quotes About Solitude

hiding in my winter cocoon not coming out again until June
~ Terri Guillemets
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Winter is the slow-down Winter is the search for self Winter gives the silence we need to listen Winter goes gray so we can see our own colors...
~ Terri Guillemets
I hide myself in the quiet white of winter and nestle in her comforting folds of cold oblivion
~ Terri Guillemets
I am grateful for the silence of winter mornings, for the beauty and wonder of the glint of sunlight in frost melting to dew, for the early-riser's peaceful solitude that sets a mood of thankfulness, hope, and calm for the dawning day.
~ Terri Guillemets
Make time for quiet moments, as God whispers and the world is loud.
~ Author Unknown
But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
~ John Muir, July 1877
A very strange and solemn feeling came over me as I stood there, with no sound but the rustle of the pines, no one near me, and the sun so glorious, as for me alone. It seemed as if I felt God as I never did before, and I prayed in my heart that I might keep that happy sense of nearness all my life.
~ Louisa May Alcott, 1845
'Shut, shut the door, good John!' fatigu'd, I said, 'Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.'
~ Alexander Pope #INFJ
I'm not a recluse — I'm just playing hard-to-get with society.
~ Author unknown #infj
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone...
~ Lord Byron
For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.
~ Terri Guillemets
How beautiful and ugly is this world, producer of patchwork hearts — torn by civilized days, mended in nature and solitude — some weaker at the seams than others.
~ Terri Guillemets #hsp
Distance is inspiration's best hearting.
~ E. Marshall
The Quarantini — any martini imbibed in solitude during coronavirus lockdown
~ Internet meme, March 2020
Quarantini — just a regular martini, but you drink it alone at home
~ Internet meme, March 2020
As a child she'd kept a copy of Evangeline in her pocket. She'd go down by the riverside and read it until she cried her eyes out... She thought the two words — primeval forest — that's often in that book, were the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~ Author Unknown
Scorpios are perfectionists... Scorpios are basically homebodies and dislike crowds.
~ Paul Rosner & Joyce Nunn
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
~ David Whyte
You have not been abandoned. You are never alone, except by your own choice.
~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We born alone, we all die alone.
~ Dalin Shu
It is very easy to love alone.
~ Gertrude Stein
People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.
~ Kim Bulbertson
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.
~ Mahatma Gandhi