1,686 Quotes About Solitude

I have drowned in my languor; struck by the waves of stillness in the sea of absolute solitude.

New prisoners are largely of two kinds -- there are those who for shame, fear or shock wait in fascinated horror to be initiated into the lore of prison life, and there are those who trade on their wretched novelty in order to endear themselves to the community. Leamas did neither of these things. He seemed pleased to despise them all, and they hated him because, like the world outside, he did not need them.

What is it called when you grieve for someone who isn’t dead, just gone away or nothing like you thought they were?

There standing with its hard firmness beneath her feet, her head and face bared to the wind that swept up from the deep valley below and broke in torrents against this ledge, she regained an inner quiet, a stillness she could not name or identify. It was as essential to her existence, however--had been even when she was still a child--as water or food itself.

Mari was hardly listening. A daring thought was taking shape in her mind. She began to anticipate a solitude of her own, peaceful and full of possibility. She felt something close to exhilaration, of a kind that people can permit themselves when they are blessed with love.

to grow we need authentic sharing community and we need true contemplative solitude, most people are afraid of both - and choose to rather live somewhere in the mediocre middle

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink.

Silence and solitude are the best spiritual experiences that can help to acquaint with your eternal self which is the core of your existence.

ကိုယ့်အတ္တနဲ့ကိုယ် တစ်ကိုယ်ကောင်းဆန်ပစ်လိုက်ရတဲ့ သူစိမ်းတစ်ယောက်ရဲ့ နေထိုင်မှုပုံဆံလိုမျိုးပေါ့။ အဝေးဆုံးကို ထွက်သွားခွင့်မရှိတဲ့ သူတစ်ယောက်မို့ အားလုံးရဲ့ အနီးနားမှာပဲ ကိုယ်ဟာ ပျောက်ကွယ်သွားအောင် တိတ်ဆိတ်နေခဲ့လိုက်တာ။