Quotes about Solitude

I say, leave me alone, this is my winter, I will stay here if I choose.

It's possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.

I don't want to be left by myself in this room. The walls are too empty, there are no pictures on them nor curtains on the little high-up window, nothing to look at and so you look at the wall, and after you do that for a time, there are pictures on it after all, and red flowers growing.

Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.

Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.

Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God.

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.