I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.
Roman PayneTag: life friends solitude joy pleasure flowers alone possessions company summer aloneness pleasures abundance roman-payne
There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.
Judith MartinTag: family relationships community aloneness miss-manners
You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.
Amit RayTag: motivational wisdom life inspirational loneliness alone spirituality unity life-lessons awareness eternal-life enlightenment interconnectedness aloneness awakening oneness spiritual-growth everyone eternal advaita nonduality insights non-duality wisdom-quotes eternal-truths vedanta advaita-vedanta spiritual-quotes global-oneness everyone-belongs
Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?
Wendelin Van DraanenAlone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.
Nikki GemmellTag: solitude loneliness aloneness
Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.
Tag: love questions peace silence communication night introspection quiet mystery answers question answer lovers aloneness communion enigma
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly
Paul ValéryTag: man god solitude adam-and-eve aloneness
In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses.
At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home.
And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness.
Tag: grief aloneness rebirth resurrection zombies
A night of exhilaration, of boredom and terror, in which the merest of sounds took on other forms - grew large in the expanse of darkness. After several hours the sheep gradually stopped calling to each other from accross the river banks, and a brittle quiet descended. I desperately wanted to walk down to the water's edge. To see the black river in the moonlight. But a mixture of reason and fear kept me locked along the safe paths high above.
Richard SkeltonTag: poetry night aloneness river affraid landings
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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