Quotes about Solitude
leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing
— Anne Frank
Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
— John Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
— Dallas Willard
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
— William Faulkner
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
— William Hazlitt
My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.
— David Brainerd
I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.
— Billy Graham
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
— Oswald Chambers
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
— John of the Cross
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
— Johannes Tauler