Quotes About Solitude And Reflection

#1. Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

William B. Ogden

#2. Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Eugenio Montale

#3. A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moments make him pensive and thoughtful and help him write his thoughts with clarity. A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.

Avijeet Das

#4. And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.

Patrick Suskind

#5. Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

Beth Moore

#6. Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

Martin Amis

#7. Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

H.W. Brands

#8. Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Edith Wharton

#9. Silence leads us back to our purpose, and it ignites creativity and vision.

Angela Lynne Craig

#10. On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,
Musing is solitude

William Wordsworth

#11. See. This is why I lo-ike you.

Anonymous

#12. I finally went
where everyone goes
and I realized
I was
never
missing
out.

Meraaqi

#13. It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Charles Eastman

#14. After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalised by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons.

Louis De Broglie

#15. But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of a woman who had just begun to open her eyes to the wide world.

R.A. Salvatore

#16. Set a daily solitude time for reflection and rethinking.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

Brad Mehldau

#18. Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self.
A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

Parker J. Palmer

#19. Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

John Travolta

#20. In the mirror the brow furrowed in confusion, this was not her soul that she saw in the reflection. The eyes filled with tears of anguish. The face aches with despair.
Then the being retreats to her solitude, deliciously succumbing to the dissociation

Tina J. Richardson

#21. We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away.

Mark Twain

#22. I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#23. They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

Ellis Peters

#24. Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?

Sherry Turkle

#25. She lived in happy solitude, and grew old, and never worried when her beauty faded, for in her reflection she always saw a free woman.

Leigh Bardugo

#26. Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.

Sherry Turkle

#27. ...interested in everything and nothing else

Umberto Eco

#28. In September 1998, one month after they met with Bechtolsheim, Page and Brin incorporated their company, opened a bank account, and cashed his check. On the wall of the garage they put up a whiteboard emblazoned "Google Worldwide Headquarters.

Walter Isaacson

#29. When some give you advice, say 'thank you'. Then, you must seek the quietness of your spirit for a reflection and direction.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Barbara De Angelis