4 Willa Cather Quotes on Solitude

Willa Cather quotes on solitude

8. Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

11. Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

26. The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.

56. 'In great misfortunes,' he told himself, 'people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love - if once one has ever fallen in.' Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.