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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.
I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.
The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).
Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.
I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.
Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
The more specific you are about a very general feeling of loneliness is actually how you connect with people.
A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.
If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.
He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.
A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.
It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.
Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.
I love the solitude of the mountains. I write, take pictures and get inspired by the colors of nature.
After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.
The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.
And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.
I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.
I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.
Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.
Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.
The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.
There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
There comes a real loneliness in celebrity where you're constantly told you're part of an out group in your own society.
I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
