Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.
There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea the solitude of self.
But see amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude:
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
She measured to the hour its solitude.
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.
Nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
Virtue cannot live in solitude neighbors are sure to grow up around it.
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand.
Solitude is independence.
He became more reflective and chose to live life with much more solitude. His passion for fishing grew more intense.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But it also gives birth to the opposite to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
I love tranquil solitude,
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good: -
Between thee and me
What diff'rence?
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
One can acquire everything in solitude but character.
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
And of course, it's hard to produce a work at the end of those years of solitude, which may or may not be understood or appreciated.
Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse. (Anna Letitia
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.
I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude.
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.
I have fished here fairly regularly for the past five years or so. It's so close that it makes for a wonderful afternoon escape. It affords you some solitude -- a place to get away and have a quality fishing experience.
The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator ofthe spirit.
. . . solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .
The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Let the yogi seated in solitude and alone having mind and senses under control and free from desires and attachments for possessions, try constantly to contemplate on the Supreme Self.
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
Solitude is the place of purification.
Living in solitude, eating lightly, controlling the thought, word, and deed ever absorbed in yoga of meditation, and taking refuge in detachment.
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
Adding new software and more people to reduce the cost of collaboration is great -- as long as it doesn't create even more work. To really ease the work overload -- and, not coincidentally, make corporations more nimble -- it's also essential to identify and eliminate unnecessary interactions. Sometimes people need to remind themselves that there is an off switch -- and use it, ... Solitude is the scarce resource in business lives -- having that time when you are disconnected and realizing that everything will go along fine without you.
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
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