Quotes about Solitude

I've been such a private person.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,Nor a friend to know me;All I ask, the heaven aboveAnd the road below me.

We all need the pendulum swing of snatching spaces of solitude and serving tables of sociability. In fact, the more plugged in and connected we are, the more we need to unplug and disconnect. A world of presence needs a time of absence.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.