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“People say they are alone. But to whom do they say that? (Les gens disent qu'ils sont seuls. - Mais à qui le disent-ils?)”

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“There is a predictable interlude when the rivals suddenly come together and speak for a second of their common loneliness, thus tritely demonstrating that we really are all the same, though I can't think of any really first-rate film, play, or book that isn't unconsciously dedicated to the fact that we are all inconsolably different.”

People Life Loneliness Solitude

Author:Penelope Gilliat

“The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the birds could share their food and gambled where any cutpurse could steal their winnings, they kissed in full view of strangers and even fucked in the shadows if they wanted to. What did it mean to be a man so completely among men, and women too? When solitude was banished, did one become more oneself, or less? Did the crowd enhance one's selfhood or erase it?”

Society Solitude Selfhood

Author:Salman Rushdie

“জানালার ওপাশের অন্ধকার থেকে আমার সঙ্গীরা আমায় ডাকে। একদিন যাদের সঙ্গ পেয়ে আজ নিঃসঙ্গতায় ডুবছি।”

Solitude Companions

Book:শঙ্খনীল কারাগার

Source: শঙ্খনীল কারাগার

“I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.”

Imagination Solitude Quiet Romanticism Quietness Introversion Pretty Prose

Book:Emily's Quest

Source: Emily's Quest

“I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.”

Country Family Friends Solitude Detachment Belong Gait

Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot. It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.”

Death Heaven Empty

Book:Story People

Source: Story People

“Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day; When kindly thoughts that would have way, Flow back discouraged to my breast; I know there is, though far away, A home where heart and soul may rest. Warm hands are there, that, clasped in mine, The warmer heart will not belie; While mirth, and truth, and friendship shine In smiling lip and earnest eye. The ice that gathers round my heart May there be thawed; and sweetly, then, The joys of youth, that now depart, Will come to cheer my soul again.”

Poetry Friendship Solitude

Book:Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

“In solitude, struggles occur that no one else knows about. Inner battles are fought here that seldom become fodder for sermons or illustrations for books. God, who probes our deepest thoughts during protracted segments of solitude, opens our eyes to things that need attention. It is here He makes us aware of those things we try to hide from others.”

God Solitude Spiritual Intimacy

Book:Intimacy With The Almighty

Source: Intimacy With The Almighty

“Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing not love nor comradeship nor any human emotion to round out her felicity. Such moments come rarely in any life, but when they do come they are inexpressibly wonderful - as if the finite were for a second infinity - as if humanity were for a space uplifted into divinity - as if all ugliness had vanished, leaving only flawless beauty.”

Solitude Quiet Introversion Animism

Book:Emily Climbs

Source: Emily Climbs

“A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.”

Book:Walden or, Life in the Woods

Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods