Thomas Carlyle on Solitude
“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
- Thomas Carlyle
“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
- Thomas Carlyle
“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
- Walter Benjamin
“A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.”
- Freeman Dyson
“Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.”
- Hoshang N. Akhtar
“The best thinking has been done in solitude.”
- Thomas A. Edison
“We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.”
- Henri Frederic Amiel
“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”
- Malcolm De Chazal
“The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.”
- Joan Baez
“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.”
- Barbara De Angelis