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Quotes about Solitude

To the Son of God prayer was more important than the assembling of great throngs... He often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed [Luke 5:15—16].
- Billy Graham
Nothing can replace a daily time spent alone with God in prayer. We can also be in an attitude of prayer throughout the day—sitting in a car or at our desks, working in the kitchen, even talking with someone on the phone.
- Billy Graham
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- Booker T. Washington
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
- Paulo Coelho
I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.
- John Wesley
Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
- Wendell Berry
I didn't have any brothers or sisters, so I did a lot of stuff where I entertained myself playing games, reading a lot, a lot of fantasy novel stuff.
- Bill Bailey
I look at Danny and Carolyn, the only other people in the room. It's time for me to go, alone and off the record. For years I've been constantly going, but never alone and never off the record. The Secret Service takes every step with me, and at least one aide is almost always there, even when I'm on vacation. A record is kept of where I am every hour.
- Bill Clinton
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
- Booker T. Washington
a person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
- Ted Dekker
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- Ted Dekker