Incapable Quote by Jean de la Bruyere Download Open image “This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.” — Jean de la Bruyere ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Incapable Solitude
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves. — John Lancaster Spalding 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
“The soul that knows suffering, understand the grace of solitude.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability. — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse. — Faye Kellerman Copy Share Image
“I love this constant motion between ' Solitude' and ' Loneliness '. On one end it's the desire and achievement of being alone (… — Anubhav Mishra 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 one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share
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
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand,… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
I'm endlessly amazed by what people are capable of, and incapable of. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to… — Shaka Copy Share Image
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal 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., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]” quote by Jean de la Bruyere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fcf/jean-de-la-bruyere-575_built_the-court-is-like-a-palace-built-of-marb_77288.jpg)
