Quotes about Solitude
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
- Thomas Jefferson
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
- Henri Nouwen
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
- Thomas Merton
The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.
- Teresa of Avila
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
- Philip Yancey
If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.
- Henri Nouwen
To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.
- Thomas Merton
O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.
- Thomas Merton
And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend
- Mahatma Gandhi
It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.
- Henry David Thoreau
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.
- John Donne
I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.
- Ernest Hemingway