Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wilberforce

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

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.

Richard Rohr

In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Beckett

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Samuel Beckett

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Townes Van Zandt

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

Truman Capote

I'm sure Proust was a big bore.

Alberto Moravia

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

Sonia Rykiel

You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Michio Kaku

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Alejandro Thiermann

There is much talk about humans but not about birds.

Caroline Paul

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

Mary Roach

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Erich Roeckner

Humans have had a large one-of-a-kind influence on the climate.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Henry Rollins

Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.