soulful solitude Quotes

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

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.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.