Solitudes Quotes

22 Solitudes quotes by 16 unique authors

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. — Han Suyin
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions… — Charles Darwin
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from… — Gaston Bachelard
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds,… — Alberto Santos-Dumont
How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is… — Gaston Bachelard
Books are solitudes in which we meet. — Rebecca Solnit
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… — Wallace Stevens
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer… — Lucy Larcom
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water… — John Muir
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes… — Allen Ginsberg
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke
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… — Gaston Bachelard
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge… — George Santayana
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all… — Alfred de Musset
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity… — Mark Twain
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night the monitory blast… — William Allingham
The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes. — Alberto Santos-Dumont

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