Josh Billings Quotes

In solitude, where we are least alone.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

I am never less alone than when alone.

When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable.