(232 quotes found)
“Religion . . . shall mean for us, the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.”
William James
“What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?”
John Milton
“Solitude stands by the window/ She turns her head as I walk in the room/ I can see by her eyes she's been waiting/ Standing in the slant of the late afternoon”
Suzanne Vega
“Solitude is not a group activity.”
Richard 'Grimesy' Grimes
“We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.”
Honore de Balzac
“The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.”
Steve Schmidt
“He became more reflective and chose to live life with much more solitude. His passion for fishing grew more intense.”
Wendy Day
“And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.”
Dejan Stojanovic
“In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.”
Simone Weil
“You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed in your mind.”
Meister Eckhart
