Wallace Stevens Quotes

In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.

Wallace Stevens

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• Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

  

  Laila Ali
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• I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

  

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• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
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• Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

  

  Abu Bakr
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• There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Patience
  • Ego
  • Solitude

• The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.

  

  Arthur Balfour
  • Earth
  • Thoughts
  • Sun

• My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
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• Life is the desert, life the solitude;Death joins us to the great majority.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Great
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• Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Society
  • Solitude
  • Rude

• Listen as the wind blows from across the great divide,Voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time.The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.Would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?And I would be the oneTo hold you down,Kiss you so hardI'll take your breath away.And after, I'd wipe away the tears,Just close your eyes dear.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Night

• Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
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• The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Solitude

• There are degrees and kinds of solitude. … I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Spring
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• It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Freedom
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• Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • Solitude

• Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

  

  Peter Benchley
  • Time
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• Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• A bird makes the same use of wings and tail in the air as a swimmer does of his arms and legs in the water.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Water
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  • Bird

• The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

  

  Dirk Benedict

• Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Way
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• In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Solitude