"The thought, the deadly thought of solitude."

-- John Keats

#Solitude Quotes

“Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.”
“I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.”

Source : "Ivanisevic gets ready to bow out", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2004.
“I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.”
“Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.”

Source : "Tigana". Book by Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990.
“Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman”

Source : Dawn French (2010). “A Tiny Bit Marvellous”, p.181, Penguin UK
“Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.”
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
“My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.”

Source : "Carry on caravanning" by Margaret Beckett, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2007.

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