Solitude Quotes - page 20

There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other. (George Bird Grinnell)
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. View quote
Henry Home, Lord Kames
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other. View quote
Jane Hirshfield
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. View quote
John Nelson Darby
I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish. View quote
Julia Glass
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies. View quote
Mark Burnett
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom. View quote
Mallory Ortberg
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. View quote
Alice Koller
Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me. View quote
Bradley Chicho
I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about. View quote
John Wells
Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost. (Kevin Patterson)
Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls. View quote
Naomi Judd
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page. View quote
Naomi Shihab Nye
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices. View quote
Pearl Cleage
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. View quote
Russell Banks
African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That doesn't fit, because I grew up with five siblings, and I have four kids of my own, so I'm not lonely at all, though I do often seek solitude, the actual meaning of my name. View quote
Soledad O'Brien
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. View quote
William Jay
They had to suffer it in solitude. View quote
Narendra Modi
If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
The horror of uncreative solitude..... View quote
Max Frisch
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. (William James)
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow. View quote
William James
Religion ... shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude. View quote
William James
Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor. View quote
Charlotte Brontë