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Quotes about Solitude

When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.
- Donald Miller
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
- JM Coetzee
Isn't it interesting that Jesus seemed to speak most intimately to people who were lonely?
- Lysa TerKeurst
In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.
- Lysa TerKeurst
And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.
- John Donne
Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.
- John Eldredge
Sartre felt that Hell is other people, but precisely the opposite is true. Hell is being left alone forever with no other reality than your own consciousness of yourself. It is being locked in a casket of your own internal chaos with no hope of a window, or door leading in light from outside to give you a moment's respite from yourself. Hell is the refusal of the gift of the other.
- John Eldredge
Like my evening walk.
- John Eldredge
The air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy.
- John Keats
To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven,—to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
- John Keats
Please don't spoil my day; I'm miles away and, after all, I'm only sleeping.
- John Lennon
The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
- Erica Jong