Solitude Quotes

Imagination is a spark of a divine light.

Silence leads us back to our purpose, and it ignites creativity and vision.

A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke, Another one bought from the store.If he lights one, his mind's lit upAnother one burns a hole..

What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.

Solace of Silencesurreal synapsesof a melancholy dronea dream per chanceshe dared not be alone...

Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.

I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it.

The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.

Study yourself

Set a daily solitude time for reflection and rethinking.

In order to work with difficult outer circumstances, we need to gather our inner strength. If even ten or twenty minutes of meditation a day helps us to do this, let's go for it!

Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each day - is the key to developing inner steadiness and calm.

Even on a cloudy day you can find light in solitude

In torment, there was release.In the darkness, there was light.In solitude, there were companions.

Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...

But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to...

He celebrated his solitude with a frown.

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.

If you feel all damp and lonely like a mushroom, find the thick, creamy soup of joyfulness and just dive into it in order to make life tastier

I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

You can tell who your friends are because they don’t prevent you from being on your own, because they illuminate your solitude without interrupting it.

Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate, you’ll have company!

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

Solitude, a time for memories, a time to dream, a time for passions to simmer quietly in the dark recesses of the mind, eager to fly yet merely reflections in the minds eye...

Tea is just an excuse.i am drinking this sunset, this evening.and you.

To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.

Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.

Moments spent alone make us realize the value of our own thoughts. Value your solitude.

Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.

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Consider A MoveThe steady time of being unknown, in solitude, without friends, is not a steadiness that sustains.I hear your voice waver on the

Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.

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.

If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.

When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.

You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.

I’m . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.

A box sits empty, wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries.

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

There are kinds of solitude that provide a respite from loneliness, a holiday if not a cure.

What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast.

My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.