I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.
I want to be left alone.
I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its soltitude. I will be the desert.
The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.
People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.
Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how to be in our solitude, so that we can relate to each other without grabbing on to each other. We can be interdependent but not dependent. Loneliness is rejected despondency. Solitude is shared interdependence.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.
Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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