If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Jodi PicoultTags: reality solitude isolation
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
Henri J.M. NouwenTags: compassion humanity solitude
If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
Stewart L. UdallI might be alone, but i'm never lonely.
Megan HartTags: solitude self-sufficiency
I prefer to be left alone with my books.
Alison WeirTags: solitude book-lover jane-grey
Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
Georges BatailleTags: solitude loyalty sovereignty
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. They are sluggish, yet more wayward, and never without a melancholy tinge. Sights and impressions which others brush aside with a glance, a light comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, adventure. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas MannTags: solitude
Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)
Wendell BerryTags: nature solitude refuge creation wilderness
He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.
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