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Quotes about Solitude

If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer.
- LM Montgomery
Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.
- LM Montgomery
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
- Erica Jong
I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.
- Mark Twain
To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
- John Keats
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
- Henry David Thoreau
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
- Henri Nouwen
Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Avoid popularity if you would have peace
- Abraham Lincoln
We need long train journeys on which we have no wireless signal.
- Alain de Botton
Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer