Solitude Quotes - Page 24

• It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  My Own, Core

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.73, Pantheon

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• Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spring, Order, Essence

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

  Eugenio Montale

  Communication, Reflection, Radio

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• No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

  Anna Neagle

  Water, Family And Friends, Needs

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• I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

  Bill Nighy

  Men, Solitary Life, Ideas

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

  Henri Nouwen

  Profound, Emergencies, Deeper

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.12, Image

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• Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

  Henri Nouwen

  Writing, Community, Different

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.13, Image

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• In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

  Henri Nouwen

  Reality, Together, Life Is

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.14, Image

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• My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

  James Patterson

  Book, Years, Complicated

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• I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

  Christina Ricci

  Book, Planes, Left Alone

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• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Sexy

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• Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Reading, Men, People

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.340, Courier Corporation

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• In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, Order, Inspire

  "Celebrating Faith, Altruism And Our Modern Community" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2011.

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• Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

  Leo Szilard

  Friends, Memories, Years

  "The Voice of the Dolphins: And Other Stories". Book by Leo Szilard, 1961.

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• I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

  Paul Theroux

  Lonely, Phones, Ideas

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• I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

  Gabrielle Union

  Good Times, Spending Time, Enjoy

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• In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Space, Life And Death, Eternity

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso

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• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

  Edward Young

  Life, Sympathy, Death

  The Revenge act 4 (1721) See Nixon 10; Petronius 2

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• There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

  Regina Brett

  Air, Silence, Lasts

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• Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

  Matsuo Basho

  Winter, Wind, Sound

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• Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

  Tom Petty

  Music, Time, Mind

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• Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Dream, Night, Ideas

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.4, Booklassic

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• When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Joy, Fearless

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Sea, Voice, Seductive

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

  Marcel Proust

  Communication, Reading, Miracle

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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