Best 1398 quotes in «solitude quotes» category

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.

Seclusion is the price of greatness.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again.

Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress.

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere -- in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church. If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things. Nor can we be.

Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all.It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.

Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate, heard only with the soul, and I realize I brought it with me, was never taught it nor can I efficiently teach it to another.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.