Quotes about solitude
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 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 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
solitude capability incapable
This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude. Jean de la Bruyere
solitude
I didn't choose solitude. Klaus Kinski
solitude together caged
There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together. Iris Murdoch
solitude companion ecstasy
Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished. Gerard Manley Hopkins
solitude break humans
In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings. Friedrich Nietzsche
solitude answers pleasure
We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing. Honore de Balzac
solitude labor
Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.
solitude moral resources
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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 telephones all-alone
All alone by the telephone. Irving Berlin
solitude ifs thoughtlessness
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. Leonardo da Vinci
solitude innocence ifs
If you would live innocently, seek solitude. Publilius Syrus
solitude gregarious persons
Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more. Nelson Mandela
solitude done suspects
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects Pablo Picasso
solitude strange introvert
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it. Liv Tyler
solitude important detachment
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important. Marya Mannes