Quotes about Solitude

I eat out alone a lot.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life. It can help you to figure out what's really important and what isn't. As writer and Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen observed, "When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.

When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

He who hath many friends hath none.

My friends, there are no friends.

I'm perpetually lonely.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

The words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.