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“One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.”

Ifs May Wish Social Enjoy Loneliness Ought Solitude Silent Various Emptiness Get Away Hateful Misanthropic

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”

Men Spiritual Born Virtue Loneliness Faults Silent Foam Talkative

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.”

Humans Sound Levels Loneliness Strange Solitude Mountain Expectations Silent Features Companionship Trembling Elevation Ascent Colossal Expanse Elation Undefined Misgivings

Book:The Haunted Baronet

Source: The Haunted Baronet

“. . . the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of greater importance. Let us open our eyes and see the heavy hearts, notice the loneliness and despair; let us feel the silent prayers of others around us; and let us be an instrument in the hands of the Lord to answer those prayers.”

Feels Heart May Hands Eye Prayer Answers Numbers Lord Greater Loneliness Despair Importance Instruments Silent Heavy Silent Prayer Heavy Heart

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]”

Stills Soul Spirit Hours Dark Loneliness Solitude Silent Crowds Thee Gray Secrecy Tombstone Dark Thoughts

Book:The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): The Raven, Tamerlane, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…

Source: The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): The Raven, Tamerlane, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…

“She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.”

Want Beautiful Stars Tree Loneliness Cold Creatures Silent Burning Solitary Bleak Like Her Beautiful Creatures

Author:Kristin Cashore

“Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.”

Mind Feelings Loneliness Scene Solitude Silent Deeper Former Impress Deserted Pageant

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)