I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

P.D. James

Tags: happiness love solitude responsibility self-sufficiency protection



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I want my own will, and I want
simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action.
And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times,
when something is coming near,
I want to be with those who know
secret things or else alone...
I want to unfold.
I don’t want to be folded anywhere,
because where I am folded,
there I am a lie.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Tags: poetry solitude



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but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Gabriel García Márquez

Tags: solitude



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Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.

Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace

Dean Koontz

Tags: freedom peace solitude loneliness reflection tranquility



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I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

Søren Kierkegaard

Tags: solitude loneliness suicide mood-swings bipolar-disorder bipolar depresion suicidal-thoughts



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Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

Brennan Manning

Tags: identity solitude silence faith self beloved



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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

C.S. Lewis

Tags: friendship christianity solitude privacy



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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Tags: life pain love solitude nostalgia regret losing desperate



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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Tags: friendship solitude loneliness



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I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
to make every moment holy.
I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enough
just to lie before you like a thing,
shrewd and secretive.
I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action;
and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times,
when something is coming near,
I want to be with those who know secret things
or else alone.
I want to be a mirror for your whole body,
and I never want to be blind, or to be too old
to hold up your heavy and swaying picture.
I want to unfold.
I don’t want to stay folded anywhere,
because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
and I want my grasp of things to be
true before you. I want to describe myself
like a painting that I looked at
closely for a long time,
like a saying that I finally understood,
like the pitcher I use every day,
like the face of my mother,
like a ship
that carried me
through the wildest storm of all.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Tags: poetry solitude growth



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