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Quotes about Solitude

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
- George Eliot
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
- Wendell Berry
This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
- William Wordsworth
In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
- MFK Fisher
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.
- Carl Jung
Our two first parents, yet the only two of mankind, in the happy garden placed, reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
- John Milton
Solomon warned us not to rush into God's presence with words. That's what fools do. And often, that's what we do.
- Francis Chan
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
- Thomas Merton
Money gone. Expectations dashed. Friends vanished. Who's left? God is.
- Max Lucado
Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.
- Max Lucado