Solitude Quotes - Page 37

• People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, People, Seductive

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problem…Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Light, Skills

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• To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths.

  Anodea Judith

  Honor, Limits, Speak

  Anodea Judith (2011). “Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self”, p.231, Celestial Arts

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• Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude; but believers are not compared to bears, or lions, or other animals that wander alone; but those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so do God’s people.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Animal, Sheep

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

  Bruce Lee

  Loneliness, Cutting, Opportunity

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.101, Tuttle Publishing

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• I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Dream, Live Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.

  Sue Halpern

  Soul, Essentials, Canvas

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• The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.

  Betsy Lerner

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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• However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

  Michael Foley

  Believe, Silence, Meaning Of Life

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has to launch alone. You cannot impose the inquiry of truth in the heart of your partner. You cannot compel your partner to have the same intensity or the same depth of inquiry. So irrespective of where you are, the voyage has to be launched upon alone. Taking the inward journey and arriving at silence, is a voyage in solitude.

  Vimala Thakar

  Heart, Journey, Discovery

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• If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

  Rumi

  Joy, If You Love Someone, Absence

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• One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

  Chris Hedges

  Thinking, Needs, Cacophony

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• Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Impossible, Ifs

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.4, HarperCollins

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• Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Thinking, Sea, Water

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• Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Recovery, Hysteria, Alarms

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.44, Stanford University Press

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• Worthy books
  Are not companions – they are solitudes:
  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

  Philip James Bailey

  Book, Care, Worthy

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.20

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• Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

  Brenda Ueland

  Inspiration, Littles, Prime

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• In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.

  Hannah

  Two, Arise, Dialogue

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• To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Breathing Space, Long

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• Books are solitudes in which we meet.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Book

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.36, Granta Books

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• You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have turned around and thrown the world in my lap. You have told me, "Leave all things and follow me," and then You have tied half of New York to my foot like a ball and chain. You have got me kneeling behind that pillar with my mind making a noise like a bank. Is that contemplation?

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, New York, Feet

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.484, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Strong, Twilight, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship.

  John Baillie

  Morning, Order, Giving

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• Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

  Allen Rosenberg

  Challenges, Rowing, Graphic

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• It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Men, Boys

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.208, Cosimo, Inc.

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