Solitude Quotes - Page 9

He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

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

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.

I love tranquil solitude.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.

Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

I am only one, But still I am one.