Quotes by Solitude Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark. Elbert Hubbard solitude strength waiting The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude? Elisabeth Elliot solitude silence christian This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. Elizabeth Gilbert solitude healing looks The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer. Elisabeth Elliot solitude prayer heart I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came. Elizabeth Barrett Browning solitude tears heart Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers. Elizabeth Bowen solitude house people Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there. Elizabeth Bowen elbows solitude looks Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone. Elie Wiesel despair solitude self 'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude. Ella Wheeler Wilcox sad solitude guests The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love. Emile M. Cioran sole solitude mean I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. Emily Bronte solitude men country Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous. Emile M. Cioran solitude love-is heaven The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore. Emile M. Cioran voice solitude doe Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. Emile M. Cioran sin solitude purity You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious. Emile M. Cioran protect solitude ifs Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again. Emile M. Cioran doing-nothing encounters solitude Tears do not burn except in solitude. Emile M. Cioran solitude tears The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. Emile M. Cioran solitude light principles I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life. Eric Clapton quiet-life solitude quiet I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude. Emily Dickinson solitude tears light «678910111213141516»