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" Quotes and Sayings About solitude

Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. Amazing things can be achieved, if we covert our feelings of Isolation to Solitude.

Isolation Aloneness Forced Punishment
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Delight Solitude Wild Beast
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Mind Original More Toward
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

Conscience Blush Sincerely Man
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

Think Teach Children Begin
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I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.

Calm Complete Day Live
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Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

Solitude Happy Compose Delight
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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.

Solitude Grows Community Intimacy
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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.
Solitude Profound Deeper Anger
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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.

Solitude Creation Life Response
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Retires Solitude Soul Thoughtful
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Laws Life Poverty Simpler
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Alone Being Condition Fact
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Been Best Done Has-Been
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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.

Deepening Find Future Hope
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Affliction Brood Cherish Consider
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Alone Feeling Felt Infinite
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Destroy Easily Make Power
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Between Bond Each Highest
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Consists Each Greet Love
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Difficult Good More Must
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Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Alone Am Choose Despair
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Chorus Discord Does Even
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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.

Despise Enough Few People
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Books Reading You
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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Reading Pleasure Solitude You
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Alone Being Consider Days
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Seek out solitude as often as you can. You wont hear the voice of God clearly until you shut out the voice of men.

Solitude Voice God Shut
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Death Desert Great Life
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Inspired Instructed Only Society
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Away Balance Give How
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Associated Darkness Fancy Horror
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Words Solitude Needs Friendship
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

America Creative Discover Greatest
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Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Love People Stand Solitude
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude

Reading Fruitful Communication Solitude
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What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Lily Craved Darkness Enfolding
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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Little Addicted Moments Welcome
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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

Strongest reason Woman Higher education
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In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Become Creative Decorating Eventually
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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.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Expresses
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Feels Hears His Music
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Gains Itself Lean Learns
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Character Imagination Society Solitude
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Solitude is the place of purification.

Solitude Place Purification
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Be able Alone Advantage Solitude
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty, unfamiliar and perilous.
Solitude Gives birth Original Beauty
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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Difference between Solitude Loneliness Understand
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