Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Solitude
• Companion
• Ecstasy

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Solitude
  • Loneliness

• I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Ecstasy

• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Genius
  • Fortune
  • Companion

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Great
  • Solitude

• Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • 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

• Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

  

  Alice Koller
  • Alone
  • Achievement
  • Solitude

• Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Song
  • Listening
  • Lonely

• I fear not," Hamilcar said gravely, shaking his head. "It seems to be the fate of all nations, that as they grow in wealth so they lose their manly virtues. With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Head
  • Shaking
  • Hamicar

• For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Money
  • Worry

• Absolute brain size does not tell you everything - or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Brain

• Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Solitude
  • Companion
  • Ecstasy