Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

Virginia Woolf

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

Salman Rushdie

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Rod McKuen

Never fear being alone, because you never are.

John Cleese

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

Martha Beck

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Marilyn Monroe

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Pablo Picasso

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Pablo Picasso

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Samuel Rogers

Then never less alone than when alone.

Samuel Johnson

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Vita Sackville-West

The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.

Witold Gombrowicz

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Salvatore Quasimodo

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter 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.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

George Williams

He's got serious speed. He still has a lot of development to work on. I think he can get down in the 46's.

Robert Hall

He's a threat to society, he's a menace. We have a very serious situation here.

Char Seward

I think it should have been taken seriously then.

Tone Loc

I was actually very into all of that seriously and I didn't really want to be carryin' all of that over, the street life, into the studio.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Richelle Mead

That's pretty weird—and when I say something's weird, you know it's serious.