Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone Weil

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Tite Kubo

i am a trickster who doesn't know solitude

Thomas Mann

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Thomas Merton

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

Thomas Jefferson

The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.

Virginia Woolf

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

Virginia Woolf

But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

Samuel Rogers

Then never less alone than when alone.

Witold Gombrowicz

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Witold Gombrowicz

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

William Drummond

Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

Wade Davis

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

Vladimir Nabokov

Solitude was corrupting me.

Vladimir Nabokov

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.