But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.
Rainer Maria RilkeTags: solitude
I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...
Gaston BachelardTags: solitude
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Charlotte BrontëTags: individuality empowerment self-esteem solitude ataraxy self-respect self-determination self-reliance self-assurance independence self-awareness defiance self-trust self-sufficiency self-containment
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria RilkeTags: friendship solitude bonds
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Tags: nature solitude loss modernity animism exhaustion
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
George SantayanaTags: life solitude work hardship
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.
Charles BaxterTags: love solitude relationships settling
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."
[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)]
Tags: freedom solitude privacy
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Karl KrausMany people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
Rollo MayTags: solitude introspection
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