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.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

Isn't it interesting that Jesus seemed to speak most intimately to people who were lonely?

In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

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.

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.

Like my evening walk.

The air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy.

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.

Please don't spoil my day; I'm miles away and, after all, I'm only sleeping.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.