Solitude Quotes
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In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours … In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
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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.
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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
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But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.
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A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
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I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed.
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I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...
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Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.
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Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
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He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
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I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
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Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.
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Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
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Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
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I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
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In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.
