Solitude Quotes

One of the greatest discoveries you could actually discover in life is the treasure of solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is an opportunity to arrest time and convert it into products.

~ Sunday Adelaja

One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is a greater treasure than money.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is a greater treasure than wealth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is the machine through which time can be converted into products.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover.

~ Sunday Adelaja

No solitude, no birth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Nothing could be given birth to without solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Everything precious comes out of solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Real intimacy is a product of solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Conception takes place when a man gets together with his creator in solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit of a mountain; I pictured its outlines blurred by rice paddies, or underwater; I pictured it as infinite—a labyrinth not of octagonal pavillions and paths that turn back upon themselves, but of rivers and provinces and kingdoms....I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars. Absorbed in those illusory imaginings, I forgot that I was a pursued man; I felt myself, for an indefinite while, the abstract perceiver of the world. The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day did their work in me; so did the gently downward road, which forestalled all possibility of weariness. The evening was near, yet infinite.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

~ Joshua Slocum

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.

~ Betty Smith

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

~ Marcel Proust

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

~ Harold Bloom

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the

~ J.d. Salinger

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

~ Betty Smith

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

~ Jean Rhys

At the foundation of the Christian life, there is a kind of sacred individuality, a sort of holy aloneness that cries out to be left alone with God. This isn't all of the Christian life. It doesn't erase those parts of a Christian's experience that happen in the context of relationships, but this sacred solitude needs to be discovered, respected, and protected.It is that place where we most irrefutably hear God tell us that he loves us, and we come to know that, no matter what other people may say about us or do to us, God will not abandon us. That holy solitude is the place where we find God's Spirit changing our affections and redirecting our identities. It is, for Jesus-followers, holy ground.

~ Michael Spencer

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

~ Criss Jami

We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude.In my fear to be alone,I distracted myself away from the deep beauty of my own solitude.

~ Scott Stabile

When you are a child at home alone, you’re afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you’re afraid no one will come.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.

~ Lois Lowry

If you're comfortable with solitude, being left out is not a problem

~ Cesar Nikko Caharian Iii

We suffer in silence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great growth comes from loneliness. You have time to develop, dwell in your own mind and go a bit mad. All great people are a bit mad. That’s good to remember. Don’t escape it. Great growth comes from time spent in foreign lands, watching foreign people with foreign cultures. It makes you forget about your own land and race and town for a while. Great growth also comes from rooting yourself into one place from time to time. Unpack your bags, get a nice bed, a book shelf, some friends. Learn to show up, keep in touch, stick around. Growth comes in all sort of forms and shapes, everywhere at all times, and it’s yours to take and consume. Do what ought to be done. Here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Until you experience real loneliness, you shall never know what real loneliness is. So many people feel miserable and lonely just because they ignore their inner man, create a gap between themselves and their inner man, and neglect their true self!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Truth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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

~ C.s. Lewis