Quotes about Solitude
But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.
— Marcus Aurelius
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
— Victor Hugo
The secret of praying is praying in secret.
— Leonard Ravenhill
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
— Oswald Chambers
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
— George Whitefield
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
— Andrew Murray
Everybody's friend is nobody's.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion is what you do with your solitude.
— William Temple
Your religion is what you do with your solitude.
— William Temple