Quotes About Solitude

All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need other people for support, but we draw our strength from within. In the end, despite faith and friends, we are alone.

Prayer does not offer a less busy life, but a less busy heart."-Paul Miller Quote Read 1/29/18

Grief is madness-ask anyone who's been there. They will tell you it abates with time, but that's a lie. What drowns you in the first year is a force of solitude and helplessness exactly equal in intensity to the love you had for the one who's gone. Equally passionate, equally intimate. The spaces between the the stabs of pain grow longer after a while, but they're empty spaces. The chich?(c)s of condolence get you back to the office.

a body on the sand. My journal gets very spotty here, with only a single detailed entry

You only grow when you are alone.

I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout...

Yes," Borkas said. "Things changed after you lost Murra. When was that, four years ago now?" Mors nodded. She hadn't heard anyone else say her wife's name in a long time.

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here.

To seek the breast of darkness and be suckled by the night.

Love is an island in the setting sun

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man's being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man's being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. Although, in daily life, we do not always distinguish these words, we should do so consistently and thus deepen our understanding of our human predicament.

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, in the wilderness because you cannot see me, my voice because my voice is spirit." It was as if I had thought these words.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention... She feels in herself that she is becoming some event.

His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against the truth. He flatters himself that he is entirely alone there.... Patience, dear lady. Perhaps, one day, he will discover some footprint on the sand.... What holy and happy terror, what salutary fright, once he recognizes in that pure sign of grace that his island is mysteriously inhabited!...

An alone man is always badly accompanied.

Come, speak low. The dark is not so dark.

But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something?... Can he ever remain solitary with himself -- and silent to his very soul!