Rae Mariz quote: The quiet wasn't so lonely if you listened

“Respect but do not fear your own fear. Do not let it come between you and something that might be deeply enjoyable. Remember it is quite normal to be a bit frightened of being alone. Most of us grew up in a social environment that sent out the explicit message that solitude was bad for you: it was bad for your health (especially your mental health) and bad for your 'character' too. Too much of it and you would promptly become weird, psychotic, self-obsessed, very possibly a sexual predator and rather literally a wanker. Mental (and even physical) well-being, along with virtue, depends, in this model, on being a good mixer, a team-player, and having high self-esteem, plus regular, uninhibited, simultaneous orgasms with one partner (at a time). Actually, of course, it is never this straightforward because at the same time as pursuing this 'extrovert ideal', society gives out an opposite - though more subterranean - message. Most people would still rather be described as sensitive, spiritual, reflective, having rich inner lives and being good listeners, than the more extroverted opposites. I think we still admire the life of the intellectual over that of the salesman; of the composer over the performer (which is why pop stars constantly stress that they write their own songs); of the craftsman over the politician; of the solo adventurer over the package tourist. People continue to believe, in the fact of so much evidence - films, for example - that Great Art can only be produced by solitary geniuses. But the kind of unexamined but mixed messages that society offers us in relation to being alone add to the confusion; and confusion strengthens fear.”

Solitude

Book:How to Be Alone

Source: How to Be Alone

“...y es que yo puedo permitirme el lujo de abandonarme porque nunca estoy abandonado, estoy solo para poder vivir en una soledad poblada de pensamientos,...”

Solitude

Book:Too Loud a Solitude

Source: Too Loud a Solitude

“To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer cannot enter that dream, precisely as it was unfolding, ever again.”

Writing Solitude Dreaming

Author:Mary Oliver

“Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.”

Loneliness Solitude

Book:The Grotesque

Source: The Grotesque

“Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave”

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Book:The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms. only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.”

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Book:Turquoise Silence

Source: Turquoise Silence

“To escape death, she'd become death.”

Death Escape

Book:Crown of Midnight

Source: Crown of Midnight

“Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors – in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.”

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Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.”

Peace Solitude Quiet Woods

Book:Nightwoods

Source: Nightwoods

“All geniuses are peculiarly inclined to solitude, to which they are driven as much by their difference from others as the inner wealth with which they are quipped, since among humans, among diamonds, only the uncommonly great are suited as solitaires: the ordinary ones must be set in clusters to produce any effect.”

Solitude Geniuses

Book:On the Will in Nature

Source: On the Will in Nature

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