Matthew Henry Quotes

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

Solitude is the place of purification.

I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.

I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

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.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

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

I want to be alone with my thought.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

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.

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

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.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

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

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.