Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.
In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.
In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.
There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten. It is an antidote to insecurity, the open door to waterways of ages past and a way of life with profound and abiding satisfactions. When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard.
He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.
In solitude, where we are least alone.
As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek. . .
The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.
Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present.
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
