Quotes about Solitude
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
- Dallas Willard
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
- William Faulkner
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
- William Hazlitt
My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.
- David Brainerd
I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.
- Billy Graham
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
- Oswald Chambers
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
- John of the Cross
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
- Johannes Tauler
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
- Timothy Keller
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.
- Amy Carmichael
It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.
- Charles Swindoll