Pastoral Resources

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

Solitude is independence.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Solitude is un-American.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

I didn't choose solitude.