Quotes about Solitude

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no sunday, it becomes an orphan.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when you're out of options, when the pain is great - and you turn to God alone.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.