Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Charles Dudley Warner

Isolation breeds conceit.

Charles de Gaulle

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Charles Baudelaire

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Arthur Brisbane

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

bell hooks

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.

Baltasar Gracian

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Brennan Manning

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

Charles Phillips

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

James Lovegrove

The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

Howard Bloom

Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.

David Gerrold

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Helen Vendler

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Henri Matisse

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

Bob Beauprez

Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

Charles Churchill

Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

Christopher Love

I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne

Napoleon Bonaparte

An empty throne always tempts me.

Lord Byron

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end.

Honore de Balzac

La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

Francis Quarles

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

John Milton

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

Samuel Johnson

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.