Quotes about Solitude

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.

As for Franny, she wanted what she most often experienced in her dreams. To be among the birds. She preferred them to most human beings, their grace, their distance from the earth, their great beauty. Perhaps that was why they always came to her. In some way, she spoke their language.

Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...

It was then that Nathaniel truly began to appreciate the years he had spent alone in his room, the distance from other people that had given him the ability to observe and to feel what another might had also made him a writer.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Writing for enjoyment of expression- like music and painting,(and photography)- does not NEED an audience of more than one.