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“It is very dissipating to be with people too much ... I cannot spare my moonlight and my mountains for the best of man I am likely to get in exchange.”

Book:The Journal, 1837-1861

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“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”

Death Sorrow

Book:Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I forced you out of myself and never said goodbye”

Grief Solitude Trauma Narcissistic Abuse Gaslighting Sexualisation

Book:you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry

Source: you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry

“My meditations and reveries are never more delightful than when I forget myself. I feel ecstasies and inexpressible delight when I melt, so to speak, into the system of beings and identify myself with the whole of nature.”

Nature Meditation Walking Solitude

Book:The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquières

Source: The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquières

“Louise lives on excellent terms with her solitude.”

Happiness Solitude Being Alone

Book:Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

Source: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

“When working at the bottling plant, she'd felt herself turning into something nearly savage, fingers stiff, mind numb, chest a cage. There'd been cats in their village who'd hiss and spit at anyone who came near them, and Xiaolei thought she could understand why. Sometimes if she wanted to leave her room, she first found herself listening from inside for any hall noises and waiting until they subsided before exiting; the sound of another door rasping open would prompt her to pause. If she spotted people her age clustered in the courtyard--a few girls had made friendly overtures--she'd turn and make a hasty retreat, as if suddenly remembering something. It wasn't surprising, she told herself: all wild animals fear human contact.”

Fear Solitude Anger Rage

Book:Land of Big Numbers

Source: Land of Big Numbers

“Melancholy is the enticing madness that evokes solitude and ecstasy as it is the song of a secluded sadness, a laughter veiling the falling rain....”

Life Inspirational Motivational Solitude Melancholy Ecstasy

Author:Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Peace can feel like a war, when your entire life has been in battle.”

Solitude Warrior Inner Strength Lightworker Starseed Warrior Woman 144

Author:Nikki Rowe

“Covid left my life in tatters and my emotions in solitude.”

Life Solitude Emotions Anthony T Hincks Coronavirus Covid 19 The Prophet Avocatorium Covid Tatters

Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“The sight of large masses of people hurrying down into underground chambers was perpetually strange to me, and I felt that all of the human race were rushing, pushed by a counterinstintive death drive, into movable catacombs. Above-ground I was with thousands of others in their solitude, but in the subway, standing close to strangers, jostling them and being jostled by them for space and breathing room, all of us reenacting unac-knowleged traumas, the solitude intensified.”

Death Solitude Crowds

Book:Open City

Source: Open City

“Podia ser só de gente, mas vivia numa multidão de mundo.”

Solitude

Book:Sudoeste

Source: Sudoeste

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