Quotes Tagged With :solitude

How can we expect to be happy when we have no peace of mind, when our mind is constantly jumping from....

I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something....

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt....

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created....

Quietude is the hermit’s humble tool. An intrepid person might attempt to wring out of him or herself....

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his....

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The....

I need to be alone. After a full day of talking, smiling, listening, showing, nodding, translating, I....

He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool-though never so egregiously....