Quotes about Solitude
I say, leave me alone, this is my winter, I will stay here if I choose.
- Margaret Atwood
It's possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.
- Margaret Atwood
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.
- Margaret Atwood
Contemplative prayer [oraciĆ³n 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.
- Teresa of Avila
Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Give yourself time just to be with yourself.
- Maya Angelou
My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God.
- David Brainerd
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.
- William Wilberforce
Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.
- Oprah Winfrey
Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.
- Anne Frank
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.
- Anne Frank
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.
- Anne Frank