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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.