Quotes about solitude
solitude aliens realizing
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us. Henri Nouwen
solitude vastness void
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth. Helene Cixous
solitude dangerous
Nothing is more dangerous than solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
solitude fine definite
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
solitude company conditions
Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company. Eleanor Catton
solitude independence boundaries
Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them. Henry David Thoreau
solitude glorious
I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.
solitude occupation want
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
solitude needs alive
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you. Florida Scott-Maxwell
solitude speak given
We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself. Jacques Derrida
solitude
There is a society in the deepest solitude. Isaac Disraeli
solitude littles purity
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. Jean-Paul Sartre
solitude feelings way
The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained how she'd always felt when she was in love. It explained what love was like and, just maybe, what was wrong with it. Jeffrey Eugenides
solitude lovers solitary
The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.
solitude
I am happiest when I am alone. Jackie Kennedy
solitude weapons way
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. Frank Muir
solitude beast grows
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. Friedrich Nietzsche
solitude may speak
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
solitude cost paradise
Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
solitude found terrible
but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.
solitude lost immense
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
solitude bears one-hundred-years-of-solitude
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
solitude secret age
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
solitude taste dangerous
...to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife... George Orwell
solitude armor ifs
If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor. George R. R. Martin
solitude comedian hanging-out
I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians. George Carlin
solitude company
Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me. Fernando Pessoa
solitude slave born
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
solitude trying quality
No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact. Feist
solitude taking took
I took a day of solitude today. We know what we need. Taking it is delightful.
solitude life-is
... life is a solitude ... Janet Erskine Stuart
solitude way breeding
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim. Caroline Knapp
solitude multitudes thyself
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. George Herbert