Solitude Quotes - Page 29

• her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

  Jane Austen

  Numbers, Giving, Silence

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.227, BookCaps Study Guides

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• This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Peace, Healing, Night

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.

  Steig Larsson

  Smart, Long, People

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• I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Long

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• Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X. 'I know exactly what you're going to say. Different kinds of solitude. Enforced solitude and voluntary solitude.' 'Quite,' said Viktoria. 'There's no need to go into it further. But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don't you think?

  Tove Jansson

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

  Shan Sa

  Moon, Dust, Sky

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• Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Wine, Sleep

  "The Common Reader". Book by Virginia Woolf, 1925.

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• It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe that I am worth something. The task is to persevere in my solitude, to stay in my cell until all my seductive visitors get tired of pounding on my door and leave me alone. The wisdom of the desert is that the confrontation with our own frightening nothingness forces us to surrender ourselves totally and unconditionally to the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Jesus, Believe

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• We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a singleminded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature.

  Henri Nouwen

  Giving Up, Healing, Grace

  "The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen".

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• The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Running, Psych, Creating

  "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Names, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.373, Wordsworth Editions

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• Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Loneliness, Jamie, Ache

  Sidney Sheldon (2012). “Master of the Game”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let us forget their good and our evil, let us forget all things save that we are together and that there is joy as a bond between us. Give us your hand. Look ahead. It is our own world, Golden One, a strange, unknown world, but our own.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Unknown Worlds, Hands

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.91, BookCaps Study Guides

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• In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Aliens, Realizing, Humans

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• I prefer to be left alone with my books.

  Alison Weir

  Book, Left Alone, Left

  Alison Weir (2006). “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”, Random House LLC

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• Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

  Georges Bataille

  Loyalty, Sovereignty

  Georges Bataille (2004). “The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge”, p.167, U of Minnesota Press

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• I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Scary, Feelings

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.

  Philip Larkin

  Simple, Sea, Support

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• People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, People, Creative

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• You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon and not as pensive of mind as Kenzie. They rely on each other too much. Saxon knows he can afford to be reckless since Kenzie acts as his conscience. And Kenzie can linger in his thoughts and plans, because he knows Saxon can defend him. I tested Kenzie earlier. I wanted to see if he would be swayed by my advice. It took Saxon's coaxing to make up the greyfur's mind. Be compleete with in yourself young redfur...you will never disappoint. Even in solitude.

  David Petersen

  Advice, Mind, Would Be

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• Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Names, Mind, Usual

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Company, Prize

  "Saul Bellow: Letters".

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• But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lying, Heart, Sadness

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.319, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

  Richard Rohr

  Demand, Able, Way

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• Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our own cold solitude. Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. That's why I tell you yet again, and you want to keep in mind: Boccaccio doesn't understand love. Love can never be laughable. Love has nothing in common with laughter.

  Milan Kundera

  Laughter, Men, Hands

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