Solitariness Quotes

#1. O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

Philip Sidney

#2. In our solitariness ... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.

Austin Osman Spare

#3. Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

Nelson Mandela

#5. The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

John Updike

#6. Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

Alfred North Whitehead

#7. Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.

Alfred North Whitehead

#8. In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.

Alfred North Whitehead

#9. Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#10. We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

John Burnside

#12. The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are "in the soup" of actual circumstances.

Oswald Chambers

#13. It takes faith, too, and obedience, to conquer selfishness, that unsubmissive characteristic which, if unchecked, produces profound personal melancholy and solitariness. Selfishness is a form of self-worship, and we have been told, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me" (Exodus 20:3).

Neal A. Maxwell

#14. My dreams are crowded with people, as though to compensate for the solitariness of my waking hours.

Anna Lyndsey

#15. When they would return to one another from their solitariness, they returned gently as dew comes to the morning grass.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#16. Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

Francis Atterbury

#17. With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Eric Hoffer

#18. Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

Alfred North Whitehead

#19. The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Thornton Wilder

#20. The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

Robert Silverberg

#21. Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

Mary J. Blige

#22. For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

Ernest Vincent Wright

#23. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

C.S. Lewis

#24. A book is a blessing that comes into our lives to teach, entertain, and inspire.

Jesenia Sanabia

#25. Imagine you're a writer, and you have decided to offer your readers a firsthand account of the politically correct primate, the idol of the left, known for its "gay" relations, female supremacy, and pacific lifestyle. Your focus is the bonobo: a close relation of the chimpanzee. You

Frans De Waal

#26. ... an implicit assumption is always: what will happen next already happened (exactly or approximately) in the past.

Henk W. Broer

#27. People are always going to need physicality; they're going to want to meet other people even more. I've got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won't forget about them.

Bjork

#28. Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.

Mark McKinnon

#29. My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.

Mira Grant

#30. The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.

Robert M. Pirsig