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Quotes About Solitude

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.
~ Richard Pryor
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
~ Kabir
God is a lonely place without steak.
~ Charles Bukowski
And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.
~ James Weldon Johnson
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
~ Anna Julia Cooper
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
~ Oswald Chambers
No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'
~ Bill Hicks
It should not be taken in a hot climate. If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful, and you are alone and your mind is turned toward God, then you may take the yogi medicine.
~ Neem Karoli Baba
The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.
~ John Climacus
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.
~ Catherine Doherty
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
~ Johannes Tauler
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California
~ Joaquin Miller
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
~ Timothy Keller
Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The soul is never less alone than when it is alone with God.
~ Samuel Chadwick
Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God's will, even if you have to stand alone.
~ Ulisses Soares
You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people.
~ Max Lucado
It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
~ Henry Adams
We're born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?
~ Morgan Llywelyn