Edmond Jabes Quotes

Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)

Edmond Jabes

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• Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Friend
  • Creativity
  • Solitude

• 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
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Society
  • Evil
  • Solitude

• There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Solitude
  • Loneliness

• 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
  • Life
  • World
  • Solitude

• 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
  • Joy
  • Solitude

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

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Great
  • Death

• Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Society
  • Solitude
  • Rude

• Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Health
  • Solitude
  • Jealousy

• 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
  • Solitude

• 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
  • Evil
  • Solitude

• The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Doubt
  • Creativity
  • Solitude

• It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Great
  • Experience
  • War

• God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

  

  Paul Valery
  • God
  • Alone
  • Solitude

• When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Beautiful
  • Sad
  • Solitude

• Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Innovation
  • Solitude

• The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Trying

• It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • People
  • Movie
  • Funny

• I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.

  

  Luis Fortuno
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • English

• If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Animal
  • Credit
  • Worthy

• Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Solitude
  • Touches
  • Preoccupied