Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Gray

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Henry David Thoreau

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

Henry David Thoreau

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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.

James A. Baldwin

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

Jackie Kennedy

I am happiest when I am alone.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

Erica Jong

Solitude is considered un-American.

Erica Jong

Solitude is un-American.

Eric Clapton

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

George Orwell

...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 R. R. Martin

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

George Carlin

I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.

Fernando Pessoa

Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

Fernando Pessoa

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

Feist

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.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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.

Janet Erskine Stuart

... life is a solitude ...

Caroline Knapp

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

George Herbert

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

Jean de la Bruyere

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

Klaus Kinski

I didn't choose solitude.

Iris Murdoch

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

Honore de Balzac

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.