Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jose Mujica

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

Nelson Mandela

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

Oswald Chambers

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

Leo Tolstoy

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

Cesar Chavez

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

Don DeLillo

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

Don DeLillo

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

James Richardson

Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.