Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Quote by Honore De Balzac

Topics: Solitude Quotes

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the...

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the...

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on...

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on...

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they...

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they...

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the...

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the...

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their...

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their...

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that...

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that...

Genius is intensity

Genius is intensity

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world,...

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world,...

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding...

They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding...

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused...

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused...

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of...

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of...

What is art? Nature concentrated.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the...

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the...

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I...

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I...