Quotes About Solitude

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship— when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world. The Spirit of God seizes me and I am compelled to get alone with God and fight the battle before Him. Until I do this, I will lose every time. The battle may take one minute or one year, but that will depend on me, not God. However long it takes, I

It is impossible to carry on your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.

When "important" individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do—to look into the face of God for ourselves.

There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone...Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him.

Will and loneliness are at bottom the same.

Ein Andenken", sagte der Junge. "Von einem Mädchen wohl?" "Nein", sagte Krabat. "Von einem Freund, wie es keinen mehr geben wird auf der Welt." "Das weißt du bestimmt?", fragte Juro. "Das", sagte Krabat, "weiß ich für Zeit und Ewigkeit.

Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.

Once again alone, my grief was unrestrained; so much so that the woman of the house came and hammered at the door and swore at me for a "dratted yelping beast," which only made my cries the louder. As several hours went on, however, and my solitude remained unbroken, I cried myself so hoarse that I was unable to emit any sort of sound at last; and thought I might as well vary my imprisonment by looking out of the casement.

He who lives well, lives hidden.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, detective independiente, se tomó el cuerpo con las manos y se estrechó en un autoabrazo solitario, en la oscuridad lunar y la lluvia. «No contaban con mi astucia», se dijo, citando al Chapulín Colorado. Su reserva de frases absurdas era enorme.

ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting here like unconquerable savages, men missing their dogs and talking pointlessly unless talk to the dead. let's sharpen something.

Associate with companions who are in harmony with the Dharma and who don't promote disturbing emotions. Keeping company with unwholesome friends, you cannot possibly avoid being influenced by their evil ways. That is the root of going astray […] Tsogyal, if you want to avoid this way of going astray, cut your ties to superfluous companions and remain in solitude!

Always keep to remote mountain dwellings, since solitude is the source of happiness! Don't live the life of an evil householder, since that causes misery for this and all future lives! Since companions influence your daily deeds, associate with people who are in harmony with the Dharma! (p. 112)

To be a hermit doesn't just mean to live in the deep forest; it means that one's mind is free from dualistic constructs.

A little house—a house of my own—Out of the wind's and the rain's way.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone.