“Always keep to remote mountain dwellings, since solitude is the source of happiness! Don't live the life of an evil householder, since that causes misery for this and all future lives! Since companions influence your daily deeds, associate with people who are in harmony with the Dharma! (p. 112)”
Source: Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples
“Solitude is the source of happiness”
Source: Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples
“Et moi, je n'ai jamais été aussi démuni, aussi désarmé. Je t'embrasse, mais avec ces larmes que je ne peux pas verser et qui m'étouffent.”
Source: Correspondance
“I was where I craved to be, walking alone in the presence of wild solitude, the treasure of aloneness seeping from the sunlight, from the blue waters, from the patterned stones.”
Source: A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
“[Y]ou must not let yourself be diverted out of your solitude by the fact that something in you wants to escape from it.”
“Those of us who crave the expressive but can’t shake off the melancholy walk the street.”
Source: Approaching Eye Level
“There was a reason why Special Forces soldiers hardly ever retired - being retired means losing integration. Losing integration means being alone.”
Source: The Ghost Brigades
“in a society in which power is so abstract that it can no longer be seized, in which the worst threat people feel is solitude and not alienation, conformity to the norm becomes the pleasure of belonging, and the acceptance of powerlessness takes root in the comfort of repetition.”
Source: Noise: The Political Economy of Music
“Some days, I enjoy simply sitting outside on the green grass of this golden fairy garden of mine, under the tender sun, as I listen to the car radio playing indie songs in the background, and see the wind slowly stripping down the trees – I swear I could stay in moments like these for a lifetime, I could lay under the winter sun with nothing but sheer peace inside my heart – a peace I have craved for a long time.”
Source: The Beauty of Every Day
“He loved solitude, for fear that others might find out his sexual abnormality.”
Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study