Solitude Quotes - page 18

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence. (Basil of Caesarea)
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine. View quote
Martha Beck
Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay. View quote
Pat Conroy
And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning. View quote
Patrick Süskind
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. View quote
Peter Benchley
There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude. View quote
Regina Brett
I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the world is speaking to you. Which isn't quite solitude, even if you're alone when it happens. View quote
Rachel Kushner
You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for. View quote
Stuart Wilde
A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. View quote
Ted Dekker
He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them, he learned everything he believed it was possible to learn. View quote
Timothee de Fombelle
Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding. (Wade Davis)
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you. View quote
Charles Baxter
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you. View quote
Charles Baxter
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. View quote
Gabrielle Union
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes and create an internal state of resonance. In such a state, the self is able to alter its constraints by directly reducing the input from interactions with others. (p. 235) View quote
Daniel J. Siegel
For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all. View quote
Jandy Nelson
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'. View quote
James Patterson
I know I have within myself... a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people who just meet me can't because I'm generally very fun and gregarious. But I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going. I always felt that that was his kind of form of escape, in a way. View quote
Gerard Butler
Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd told Maddox that she'd been glad for her solitude, bu the truth was, there were times she'd been starved for touch. Any touch. View quote
Gena Showalter
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. View quote
Eve Ensler
Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company. (Eleanor Catton)
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical. View quote
Eugenio Montale
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim. View quote
Caroline Knapp
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please. View quote
Caroline Knapp
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms. View quote
Caroline Knapp