Quotes on Solitude

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

In silence, we have an opportunity to reflect, listen, and gain new insights about ourselves. In silence, we can think, feel, and most important of all, breathe. When you seek guidance, understanding, clarity, or peace of mind, the first step is to master the art of silence and to rethink the value of solitude.

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?