Adventure Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

— Jean de la Bruyere

There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.

— Catherine Reitman

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once…

— Hannah Nordhaus

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

— Jules Verne

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life…

— Camille Paglia

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

— Faye Kellerman

“I was beginning to understand why my mother preferred solitude during the times that burdened her heart.”

— Sue Lynn Tan

“It was easier with Mother--always had been--less complicated, less treacherous. I didn't have to be on my guard so much. I didn't have to…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed

“When misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit”

— Sophocles

For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her…

— Albert Camus