Quotes About Solitude

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboatcomes slowly out and then goes back is truly worthall the years of sorrow that are to come.

He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here.

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you've learned about the grand themes of life.

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.

Trees give peace to the souls of men.

I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

Leave me in peace, everybody takes dope.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.