Quotes About Contemplation

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

I cherish my time off and the solitude that comes along with it.

In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Solitude helps you reflect.

I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

I didn't choose solitude.

We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

When I perform as a solo, I think a lot about what I always wanted to do but have not done yet.

My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without any outside dialogue.

After a day's fishing, I'll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.