Solicitude Quotes

• Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Losing, Reputation

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.394

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• When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.

  Max Stirner

  Thinking, Enjoy Life, Doe

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.283, Cambridge University Press

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• Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

  Jane Austen

  Dresses, Literature, Distinction

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.1560, Wildside Press LLC

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• Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.

  Anthony

  Soul, Devil, Hell

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• Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Respect, Mean, Desire

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• Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all creatures and pass on to them the gifts of salvation...Let yourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit to be the leaven of new life, salt of the earth and light of the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Light, Joy, Faithful

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• We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Affection, Occasions

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• Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Love, Lonely, Pain

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.

  James Madison

  God, Wise, Powerful

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.51, University of Virginia Press

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• As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Progress

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.436

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• Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.

  Norman Cousins

  Respect, Inspire, Meaning Of Life

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

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• Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Life, Weed, Flower

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2011). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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• In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

  Alice Crary

  Matter, Merit, Ethics

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• How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Children, Wall, Luxury

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.234, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Happiness, Happy, Charity

  "Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day".

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• It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Training, Principles

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.347, Delphi Classics

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• The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

  Jane Addams

  Play, Cities, Temples

  Jane Addams (2016). “The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets”, p.10, Youcanprint

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• Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Design, Imperfection

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Gilbert Wakefield (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.16

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• The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Happiness, Kindness, Practice

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• Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Love You, Violet

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Eye, House

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.251, 1st World Publishing

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• The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

  Alexander Pope

  Future, Knowing, Littles

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1788). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.272

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• If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

  John Tillotson

  Real, People, Heaven

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  Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.

  John Calvin

  Angel, Divine, Beneficence

  Jean Calvin, John Allen (1844). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.155

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• My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of 'We, the People,' instead of 'We, the States'?

  Patrick Henry

  People, Political, Curiosity

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