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“We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!”

May Long Death Dies Father Sea Solitude Eternity Lips Wave Streams Shore Assurance Not Alone Accompany Verge Accompany Us

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.”

“In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.”

Light Worry Perspective Solitude Eternity Distance Traps Psychics

Author:Dallas Willard

“In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.”

Space Subjects Solitude Eternity Life And Death

Book:Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology

Source: Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology

“There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tiny bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.”

Source: Sula

“Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”

Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time

“loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.”

Answers Silence Loneliness Solitude Conversation Roots Eternity Internals

Author:Miley Cyrus

“I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.”

I Can Seems Solitude Lonely Eternity Likes Infinity

Book:Too Loud a Solitude

Source: Too Loud a Solitude

“Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.”

Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

“It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.”

Stars Silence Destiny Solitude Eternal Eternity

Author:Archibald Rutledge

“We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.”

“No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.”

Soul Matter Faces Community One Thing Solitude Eternity This Life Privacy

Author:Robert Breault

“...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!”