Solitude Quotes

• Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

  Richard J. Foster

  Loneliness, Emptiness, Fulfillment

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

  Albert Camus

  Order, World, Introvert

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage

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• Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Our Society, Transformation

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.18, HarperCollins

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• I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Loneliness, Being Single

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Memories, Giving

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• Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Good Advice, Introvert, Make Sense

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• Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

  Paulo Coelho

  Blessed, Judging, Introvert

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• To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, People, Choices

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• Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Fit

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• No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

  Anne Bronte

  Eternal

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.68, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

  Vicki Baum

  Cities, Big Cities, Bigs

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• Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, Looks

  Thomas Merton (2012). “On Christian Contemplation”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Way, Spirit

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• My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Being Alone, Offering

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• Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Stress, Meditation Practice

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• If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ifs, Thoughtlessness

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.129, Univ of California Press

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• Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

  Paul Tillich

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Soul, Privilege, Superficial

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

  Dallas Willard

  Loneliness, Haste, Isolation

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• Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

  Judith Guest

  Jesus, People

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• The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

  Voltaire

  Happiness, Lonely, Life Is

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Inspiration, Being Alone

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.4, no.3 (translated by M Staniforth).

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