#solitude

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. ↗

— Henry Miller

#silence #solitude #music

Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God and learns something of the secret of His perfections less by seeing than by fruitive love. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#love #solitude #love

Solitude is a time for "God and God alone." Who knows what can happpen when we focus only on God. In solitude, we sense our deep oneness with God and keep company with Him. Solitude is breaking through my isolation into sharing and being in touch with my Creator. In fact, we can begin to heal our loneliness by transforming it into solitude. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#love

I find myself alone in this world and I'm very sad. Everyone has abandoned me and I am truly alone. I have nobody to talk too, to confide in and share my problems with. I have nobody to cheer me up when I'm down, nobody to love or love me back. I have nobody, I am alone in this world. ↗

— Unknown

#loner #loniless #solitude #love

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#i #live #maturity #painful #solitude

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#different #different kinds #kinds #love #love is

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#crowd #depend #him #imagines #man

In solitude, where we are least alone. ↗

— Lord Byron

#least #solitude #where

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. ↗

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#day #exercise #need #night #rest

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#friendship #privacy #solitude #friendship