Quotes about solitude
solitude littles noise
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. Edith Wharton
solitude isolation conceit
Isolation breeds conceit. Charles Dudley Warner
solitude faces events
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 de Gaulle
solitude crowds poet
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. Charles Baudelaire
solitude crowds hours
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. Arthur Brisbane
solitude black males
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. bell hooks
solitude sage beast
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. Baltasar Gracian
solitude identity speech
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. Brennan Manning
solitude peculiar thrones
Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. Charles Phillips
solitude fame
That's what fame is: solitude. Coco Chanel
solitude sloppiness reason
Solitude was no reason for sloppiness Armistead Maupin
solitude betray
And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you Brandon Sanderson
solitude littles cherish
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. Sydney Smith
solitude depth madness
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. Edward Abbey
solitude looks elbows
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
solitude walks ifs
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it. Elfriede Jelinek
solitude swedish-actress
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference. Greta Garbo
solitude humanity
He who understands humanity seeks solitude
solitude world weight
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. Allen Ginsberg
solitude quests transgression
Transgression is a quest for solitude Adam Phillips
solitude listening getting-older
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone. Alberto Giacometti
solitude purpose excess
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism. Aldous Huxley
solitude age increase
I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age. Albert Einstein
solitude
Marriage is lonelier than solitude. Adrienne Rich
solitude mind bears
The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind. Arthur Schopenhauer
solitude forests needs
For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
solitude violence working-conditions
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself. Albert Camus
solitude poverty values
There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
solitude together crime
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.
solitude religion weight
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
solitude treasure contact
I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact. Doris Lessing
solitude
I really do work in solitude. Donna Tartt
solitude said
There is much to be said for solitude. Douglas Kennedy