La Solitude Quotes & Sayings

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

On an impulse he cannot explain, he buys himself a one-way ticket - and the evening of that very same day finds him wandering the streets of the old colonial quarter of the Colombian town. Girls in love with boys on scooters, screeching birds, tropical flowers on winding vines, saudade, and solitude, One Hundred Years of it; and then, as the tropical dusk darkens the corners of the Plaza de la Adana, he sees a woman, her fingers toying with a necklace of lapis lazuli, and they stand still as the world eddies about them. — David Mitchell

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! — Jean De La Bruyere

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. — Jean De La Bruyere