Quotes about Solitude

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

She stood for a long time, breathing in and breathing in, the scent of the trees and dogs and night flowers and water, because this was the best thing, it was what she wanted, to be outside in the night by herself. She wasn't sick any longer.

I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except

I say, leave me alone, this is my winter, I will stay here if I choose.

It's possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.

I don't want to be left by myself in this room. The walls are too empty, there are no pictures on them nor curtains on the little high-up window, nothing to look at and so you look at the wall, and after you do that for a time, there are pictures on it after all, and red flowers growing.

Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.

Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.

Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God.

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.