Famous Quotes - Tags - Solitude
- ... gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone,... More
- ... it is the desert’s grimness, its stillness and isolation, that bring us back to love. Here... More
- ... solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry... More
- A blind man. I can stare at him
ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
No, he is in a... More
- A light he was to no one but himself. More
- A man by himself is in bad company. More
- A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a... More
- A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. More
- A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it ... More
- A solitude is the audience-chamber of God. More
- A writer who writes, “I am alone” ... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a... More
- Adder-faced singularity
Espouses a nailed-up childhood,
Skin-disease pardons
Soft... More
- After experience taught me that all the ordinary
Surroundings of social life are futile and... More
- After reading Howitt’s account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself... More
- Ah! you can die, the world can collapse, I have lost the one I love. I must now live in this... More
- Ah! you do not know that we are never alone! And that everywhere the same weight of the future... More
- Ah, mon cher for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is... More
- All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone. More
- All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone. More
- All those who try to go it sole alone,
Too proud to be beholden for relief,
Are... More
- Alone he rides, alone,
The fair and fatal king:
Dark night is all his own,
That... More
- Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity... More
- Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No... More
- Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons. More
- Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue. More
- Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng,... More
- An artist is always alone—if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. More
- And I away in my opposite wood
Am touched by that unintimate light
And made feel less... More
- And when thy heart is laid to rest
Beneath the church-yard stone
I shall have time enough... More
- Angel of beach houses and picnics, do you know solitaire?
Fifty-two reds and blacks and only... More
- Anyone with a real taste for solitude who indulges that taste encounters the dangers of any other... More
- Apart, we think we wish ourselves together,
Yet sue for solitude upon our meetings.... More
- As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods... More
- As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling... More
- As he watched from windows in the failing light
For his world that was always just out of... More
- As some heads cannot carry much wine, so it would seem that I cannot bear so much society as you... More
- As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally... More
- Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass! More
- Better than mortal flowers,
Thy moon-kissed roses seem: better than love or sleep,
The... More
- Beyond all this, the wish to be alone:
However the sky grows dark with invitation-cards.... More
- But for my part, I preferred the solitary dwelling. More
- But he had gone his way, the grass all mown,
And I must be, as he had... More
- But really no one is exceptional,
No one has anything, I’m anybody,
I stand beside my... More
- But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation. More
- But ‘twas beyond a mortal’s share
To wander solitary there:
Two Paradises ‘twere in... More
- By all means use sometimes to be alone.
Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
Dare... More
- Character always ... is thus distinct and unrelated to near or trivial objects, whether things or... More
- Columbus has sailed westward of these isles by the mariner’s compass, but neither he nor his... More
- Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet ‘tis early morn:
Leave me here, and when you... More
- Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right... More
- Crouching down where nothing stirs
In the silence of the furze,
Crouching down again to... More
- Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone. More
- Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished. More
- For what reason have I this vast range and circuit, some square miles of unfrequented forest, for... More
- Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every... More
- God, who gave to him the lyre,
Of all mortals the desire,
For all breathing men’s... More
- Grusinskaya: I want to be alone.
Meierheim: Where have you been? I suppose I can cancel the... More
- Grusinskaya: You must go now.
The Baron: I’m not going. You know I’m not going. Oh,... More
- Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his... More
- he had been alone
Amid the heart of many thousand mists, More
- He is himself alone,
To answer all the city. More
- He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruits of riches, who summer and winter forever can find... More
- He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly... More
- He thought he kept the universe alone; More
- How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason... More
- How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little. More
- Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to... More
- I am cold in this cold house this house
Whose washed echoes are tremulous down lost... More
- I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish... More
- I am ill, but your being by me
Cannot amend me; society is no comfort
To one not... More
- I am monarch of all I survey;
My right there is none to dispute;
From the center all... More
- I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself.... More
- I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone,... More
- I and my bosom must debate awhile,
And then I would no other company. More
- I cannot remember things I once read
A few friends, but they are in cities.
Drinking cold... More
- I don’t like to be idle; in fact, I often feel somewhat guilty unless there is some purpose to... More
- I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the... More
- I had as lief have been myself alone. More
- I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When... More
- I had drawn away into the salt,
myself, a shell
emptied of life. More
- I had withdrawn so far within the great ocean of solitude, into which the rivers of society... More
- I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. More
- I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends... More
- I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of solitude, but once, and that... More
- I have often wished since that I was with them. They search for timber over a given section,... More
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of... More
- I live absolutely like an oyster. More
- I long for scenes where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to... More
- I love all waste
And solitary places; where we taste
The pleasure of believing what we... More
- I myself am best
When least in company. More
- I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. More
- I restore myself when I’m alone. A career is born in public—talent in privacy. More
- I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the... More
- I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a... More
- I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once... More
- I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone. More
- I was alone with all that could happen. I began to wonder if the Pedersens had a dog, if the... More
- I was alone
now
my beautiful peace has gone;
did I ask you here? More
- I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and... More
- I will be free,
no lover’s kiss
to bind me to earth,
no bliss of love
to... More
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