Ellen Glasgow Quotes

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

I aspire only to silence.

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover the links between events that at first sight seem unconnected... For this to happen, it is necessary to develop an appropriate environment, a kind of 'eco-system' that maintains a just equilibrium between silence, words, images and sounds.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.