Quotes about Solitude
Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...
- Alice Hoffman
It was then that Nathaniel truly began to appreciate the years he had spent alone in his room, the distance from other people that had given him the ability to observe and to feel what another might had also made him a writer.
- Alice Hoffman
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
- Alice Walker
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
- Alice Walker
When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.
- Albert Einstein
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.
- Carl Jung
Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
- Robert Frost
Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.
- AW Tozer
Writing for enjoyment of expression- like music and painting,(and photography)- does not NEED an audience of more than one.
- Edith Schaeffer
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
- Anonymous
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
- Anonymous
Better to live alone; with a fool there is no companionship. With few desires live alone and do no evil, like an elephant in the forest roaming at will.
- Anonymous