In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
Charles de Gaulle
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More quotes by Charles de Gaulle
- Old age is a shipwreck.
- Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
- You'll live. Only the best get killed.
- It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
- I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.