“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.” MenLongMightNaturalRacePrinciplesSolitudeQuietFindingsCreatorChosenSpotsPreferenceLong LifeReposeCemeteryCharterSecludedEquality Of Man Author:Thaddeus Stevens
“In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.” StillsUnderstandingMusicSolitudeFindingsPityClarityEnchantmentCertitudeNew Hope Author:Nadia Boulanger
“I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.” TryingHas BeensHardProblemCoursesLonelinessEasierSolitudeFindingsDignity Book:Bluets Source: Bluets
“Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.” LonelinessBrotherSolitudeFindingsSingleBeing SingleLoneliness And Solitude Book:Essays and Soliloquies Source: Essays and Soliloquies
“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.” MenFeelsReligionWomenLonelinessSolitudeFindingsCompanion Author:Paul Valery
“Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.” WritingBookIdeasSubjectsTerribleSolitudeFindingsOvercomingBottomHolesNakedEmptinessFinding YourselfDiscoveringLike Something Book:Writing Source: Writing
“And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?” PersonsSometimesMomentsMissingTerribleSolitudeFindingsSpiteSaneFleetingDoseSubway Author:Jhumpa Lahiri
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.” IfsWantLifeBelieveImportantStrongStarsSleepSolitudeKissingFindingsTrainSticksInstinctCherishDisagreeFar AwayComing BackFittingBeing Afraid Author:Eve Ensler
“I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again.” IfsFeelsSaidFoundExpressionSolitudeFindingsOneselfNot SureSpokesFragileSolitaryLonlinessFinding MyselfLike Being Alone Book:Simply Love Source: Simply Love