The evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do.Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to someone, to be reassured. Or perhaps I needed to confess my sin: I was once again having impure thoughts about saving the world. Or it was neither of these--I was afraid I was dreaming. Indeed, considering the events of the day, it was likely that I was dreaming. I sometimes fly in my dreams, and each time I say to myself, "At last--it's happening in reality and not in a dream!"
In any case, I needed to talk to someone, and I was alone. This is my habitual condition, by choice--or so I tell myself. Mere acquaintanceship leaves me unsatisfied, and few people are willing to accept the burdens and risks of friendship as I conceive of it.
Tag: solitude friendships anxiety
He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.
D.H. LawrenceBut many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
bell hooksTag: fear love solitude loneliness community escape relationship aloneness
Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.
Edwin Way TealeTag: nature solitude secrets thoughts crowds
When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!
Mehmet Murat ildanTag: solitude
There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: acceptance self-esteem solitude pleasure self-worth opinion yourself company me richelle richelle-goodrich
Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them … than when you are alone.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaSolitude is a gift you give yourself every day.
Rachel AstarteTag: solitude self-improvement self-realization self-growth celebrating-solitude rachel-astarte-piccione solitude-practice
...children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed. For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of-- to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.
Virginia WoolfTag: solitude human-condition
I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.
Djuna BarnesTag: solitude
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