To be alone for any length of time is to shed an outer skin… - David Whyte

" "
To be alone for any length of time is to shed an outer skin. The body is inhabited in a different way when we are alone than when we are with others. Alone, we live in our bodies as a question rather than a statement.

David Whyte

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

solitude self

English

Collect this quote

About David Whyte

David Whyte (born 2 November 1955) is an Anglo-Irish poet.[1][2][3] He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality".[4] His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (1994) topped the best-seller charts in the United States.

Biography information from Wikiquote

All quotes from David Whyte Similar Quotes by other Originators

Shorter versions of this quote

Alone, we live in our bodies as a question rather than a statement.

Originators like David Whyte:

Rainer Maria Rilke John O'Donohue Dag Hammarskjöld Pema Chödrön Anne Lamott

Additional quotes by David Whyte

And when you are humiliated all your fancy ideas about yourself and who you are and what you can accomplish and how are shriveled away suddenly in the encounter with the ground.

The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.

after all, the identity of the one who must forgive is actually founded on the very fact of having been wounded.

To be alone for any length of time is to shed an outer skin. The body is inhabited in a different way when we are alone than when we are with others.… - David Whyte

About David Whyte

Try QuoteGPT

Shorter versions of this quote

Additional quotes by David Whyte