Quotes about Solitude

sitting on that bench just pondering. I don't

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Like I said, I like having someone here. At night I look out my bedroom window, and seeing a light on in here comforts me." He paused in the doorway. "Sort of like, 'All is well in the world.' That's what light does, you know. Says all is well in the world.

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.