Quotes about Solitude

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

In the solitary farmhouse of the hills there was a great joy in life, much tenderness, and much hope.

Solitude sometimes is the best society.

For solitude sometimes is best society and short retirement urges sweet return.

If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.

He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

It is both relaxing and invigorating to ... set aside the worries of life, [and] seek the company of a friendly book...

Solitude is for the strong, or for those who are ready to become strong. When a man is becoming great, he becomes solitary. He goes in solitude to seek, and that which he seeks, he finds, for there is a Way to all knowledge, all wisdom, all truth, all power. And the Way is for ever open, but it lies through soundless solitudes and the unexplored silences of man's being.

As the body cannot thrive on empty husks, neither can the spirit be sustained on empty pleasures. If not regularly fed the body loses its vitality, and, pained with hunger and thirst, cries out for food and drink. It is the same with the spirit: it must be regularly nourished in solitude on pure and holy thoughts or it will lose its freshness and strength, and will at last cry out in its painful and utter starvation.

It is in solitude only that a man can be truly revealed to himself, that he can come to understand his real nature, with all its powers and possibilities. The voice of the spirit is not heard in the hubbub of the world and amid the clamours of conflicting desires. There can be no spiritual growth without solitude.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.