Quotes about Solitude

She often climbed up the hill and lay there alone for the mere pleasure of feeling the wind and of rubbing her cheeks in the grass. Generally at such times she did not think of anything, but lay immersed in an in an inarticulate well-being.

One may be strengthened & fed without the aid of Joy, & no one knows it better than I do; & I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one's center of life inside of one's self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one's inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

All general privations are great, because they are all terrible; vacuity, darkness, solitude, and silence .

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no sunday, it becomes an orphan.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when you're out of options, when the pain is great - and you turn to God alone.