Pastoral Resources

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

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

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Solitude is the place of purification.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.