“The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.” MenLongFallAnimalTreeHe ManFlowerSolitudeSpeechUnderstoodRainTongueEasePerceiveRejoiceHerbsDroughtShrubs Book:The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” LoveMaySoulSometimesFallWalksBeautyLonelinessWalkingSolitudeHikingBeing AloneTrekkingLonlinessLong WalksSoul BeautyWalking AloneWalking Forward Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.” IfsGivingFallIndividualToo MuchSolitudeResourcesRelationStrangerIsolationDistractionFountainImbecility Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which rests on everything and finds nothing to calm it. They seek solitude; they weep; the silence to be found in cloister attracts them: the image of peace that seems to reign in religious houses seduces them. They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.” FirstsMomentsSeemsFallGirlFoundHouseWishVoiceReligiousMistakeSilenceBoysAtheismFashionCallingSolitudeEmbraceCalmPositive AtheismContraryDevelopingManifestationMelancholyVagueReignSeducingVoice Of GodEvery Girl Author:Denis Diderot