Quotes about Solitude
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
— Alphonsus Liguori
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
— Albert Schweitzer
I don't like talking to celebrities.
— Lady Gaga
Unfortunately, large cities don't have a monopoly on loneliness. It can be found in small towns as well. Loneliness can be found everywhere there are people.
— Richard Paul Evans
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light.
— Robert Frost
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
— Vincent Van Gogh
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus
Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.
— Charles Swindoll
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
— CS Lewis