Top 39 Solitude Makes Quotes
#1. Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#2. In a revealed religion, silence with God has a value in itself and for its own sake, just because God is God. Failure to recognize the value of mere being with God, as the beloved, without doing anything, is to gouge the heart out of Christianity."10 Silent solitude makes true speech possible
Brennan Manning
#3. Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.
Brennan Manning
#4. Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
Rachel Nichols
#6. The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.
Theophile Gautier
#7. Solitude is the biggest medicine for once peace, It makes your heart pure and calm.
Debolina Bhawal
#8. Love makes me naked;
Propinquity's a harsh master;
O the songs we hide singing to ourselves!
Theodore Roethke
#9. Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.
Helene Cixous
#10. What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#11. What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
Henry David Thoreau
#12. He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
Lord Byron
#13. I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.
Joyce Rachelle
#14. Septimus has been working too hard - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.
Virginia Woolf
#15. He who has little communication with people is seldom a misanthrope. True misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world. This is because it is practical experience of life, and certainly not philosophy, that makes people hate their fellows.
Giacomo Leopardi
#16. Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.
Brigitte Bardot
#17. Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
Kahlil Gibran
#18. There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Colette
#19. Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society", inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people - "base.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas to communicate. But few of us desire solitude all the time ... Yet solitude is what makes us contemplative and receptive, more aware of life's gifts and our own special blessings.
Alexandra Stoddard
#21. Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
John Stuart Blackie
#23. Our extroverted culture makes introverts feel despicable for wanting to be alone. Like thieves snatching something that doesn't belong to them, we have to "steal" a moment of solitude. If only introverts could see that we have a right to our alone time. We have a right to enjoy it too. Think
Michaela Chung
#24. We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.
Anneli Rufus
#25. Solitude that throws the honest rays of perfect euphoria;
Solitude that makes me breathe in the real me;
Solitude I call it - my abode, my self made haven;
Solitude I call it - the sanguine face of Loneliness.
Debatrayee Banerjee
#26. I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#27. It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#28. Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
Lao-Tzu
#29. One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.
Henri Nouwen
#31. Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it's the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude is a time for stripping away everything in order to focus on God. (Matt 6:6)
Sue Monk Kidd
#33. Solitude is a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
Coleman Barks
#34. A Warrior of Light needs love.
Love and affection are part of his nature.
He makes use of solitude,
but is not used by it.
Paulo Coelho
#35. But to me, it's a whole
lot more important to find something that makes you unafraid of
being alone, rather than to have so many friends that you wind up
being terrified of solitude.
Mitsuyo Kakuta
#37. Loneliness is painful; Solitude is peaceful. Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to respect others in their uniqueness and create community ...
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#38. If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#39. Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
Carl Jung
