Solitude Quotes - Page 18

• Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Everyday, Done, Crowds

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• The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Love Is, Ideas, World

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Protect, Ifs

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.69, Arcade Publishing

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• After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Walks, Ifs

  Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Hulse (1990). “Wonderful, Wonderful Times”, p.224, Profile Books

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• Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Doe, Fellowship

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.41, Image

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• But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Morning, Wall

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Energy, Crowds

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• Moments of solitude are the holiest moments to think wisely!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Moments

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• Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Opportunity, Years, People

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• If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is not mutual compatibility or common tasks, but God. In order to stay in touch with that call to community, we always have to return to solitude.

  Henri Nouwen

  Order, Community, Faithful

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Essentials, Ministry

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Children, Space

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the child alone, but it does mean creating safe spaces where the child can be with other people. It does mean directing their attention to God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hard Times, Time Keeping, Community

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.

  Jack Nicholson

  Crazy, Thinking, Luxury

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

  Francis Bacon

  True Friend, Real, World

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.47, 谷月社

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• He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

  Francis Bacon

  Crazy, Animal, Mad

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• Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

  John Mayer

  Hate, Traveling Alone, Scared

  Song: The Age of Worry, Album: Born and Raised, 2012

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• It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

  Jessamyn West

  Easy, Born, Ruthless

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• 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.

  Martha Beck

  Individuality, Persons, Mines

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• Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

  William Drummond

  Eternal Love, World, Shady

  William Drummond (1856). “The Poetical Works”, p.85

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• I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

  Brenton Thwaites

  Art, Writing, Focus

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• And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Crowds, Facts, Bigs

  "The Shape" by Dejan Stojanovic, Gramatik, Podgorica, "The Shape and Society", (p. 19), 2000.

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• 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Alone Man, Vanity

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.188

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• Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

  Wade Davis

  Understanding, Risk, Discomfort

  Wade Davis (2010). “The Serpent and the Rainbow”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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