Quotes about solitude
solitude clumsiness
. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. Virginia Woolf
solitude undoing
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.
solitude
Then never less alone than when alone. Samuel Rogers
solitude proust humans
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned. Samuel Beckett
solitude three-things inability
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.
solitude sorrow remember
Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering. Townes Van Zandt
solitude true-life impatience
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. Vita Sackville-West
solitude misunderstood conditions
Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood. Sarah Hall
solitude eternal-love world
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. William Drummond
solitude risk understanding
Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding. Wade Davis
solitude
Solitude was corrupting me. Vladimir Nabokov
solitude satan
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
solitude demand able
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 Richard Rohr
solitude
They make solitude, which they call peace. Tacitus