Loneliness and solitude Quote by Jean de la Bruyere Download Open image “How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!” — Jean de la Bruyere ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Loneliness and solitude Passing Passings Solitude Sweet
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. — William Jay Copy Share Image
What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The unfaithful woman, if she is known for such by the person concerned, is only unfaithful. If she is thought faithful, she is perfidious. — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr.,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and… — R.J. Ellory Copy Share Image
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“...Bhutan all but bases its identity upon its loneliness, and its refusal to b assimilated into India, or Tibet, or Nepal. Vietnam, at present,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
