“The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.” MenSufferingTalentLonelinessHe ManDesertMidstAbandonedDragSolitaryMarketplaceLeperIrreparable Book:A short history of decay Source: A short history of decay
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” MenWorldInspirationalPhilosophyEasyPerfectOpinionLonelinessSolitudeIndependenceIndividualityCrowdsGreat MenMidstWildernessConformityGraduationConformSweetnessSelf RelianceRelianceBeing AloneTranscendentalNonconformityTranscendentalismLoneliness And SolitudeConformity And IndividualityIndependence Of ThoughtDoing Your Own Thing Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the mist as though it would prop up the melancholy sky and protect beneath itself the faint lonely flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which looked like the last grave of mankind in the midst of night and loneliness.” LastsNightSkyStreetsMankindLonelinessMoonProtectStonesLonelySoldierGravesFlamesMidstMelancholyBroadsSquaresLampsMistTombsPropsArches Author:Erich Maria Remarque
“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.” KnowsWorldWaySoulSelfSpiritSufferingLonelinessSolitudeOvercomingBitterMidstMultiplicityIndivisibleSpirit And Soul Author:Hermann Hesse
“And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.” YearsLightEyeFeltWaitingBehindsKindnessLonelinessTearsSonYears AgoStandingFilledLongingFingersDepthGentleRememberedMidstTrafficHer EyesChinsDentistTraffic Light Book:Olive Kitteridge: Fiction Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
“Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.” EndsNightStarsLonelinessMidstThread Author:Wendell Berry
“The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.” Life IsSpiritSpaceLonelinessSolitudePressureCrowdsThriveZoneMidstTime And SpaceAlienationBeing AloneAmerican LifeOmissionLoneliness And Solitude Author:Marya Mannes
“About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements.” StillsFeltNumbersLonelinessWindElementsAgingRoseWaveShipsMidstMidnightFogInsectsDriftingStrawsGale Book:The Voyages of Joshua Slocum Source: The Voyages of Joshua Slocum
“Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.” IfsThinkingMenLonelinessSolitudeMidst Author:Romain Rolland