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Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day; When kindly thoughts that would have way, Flow back discouraged to my breast; I know there is, though far away, A home where heart and soul may rest. Warm hands are there, that, clasped in mine, The warmer heart will not belie; While mirth, and truth, and friendship shine In smiling lip and earnest eye. The ice that gathers round my heart May there be thawed; and sweetly, then, The joys of youth, that now depart, Will come to cheer my soul again.
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poetry
solitude
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Anne Brontë |
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The sound of darkness was certainly intricately linked to the sense of being alone but unrelated to this was the sound of the palpitations of men and women experiencing the sense of utter solitude. There was no doubt about it. This was a sound audible only on evenings such as this.
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solitude
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Shūsaku Endō |
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It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.
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solitude
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Michael Cunningham |
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But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.
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loneliness
solitude
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John Fowles |
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The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.
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comfortable
learning
loneliness
solitude
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John Grogan |
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I had made the very common mistake of thinking that marriage was a mode of absolute commonality and a breaking down of all boundaries, instead of understanding it simply as a pact between two people willing to be the guardians of each other's solitude.
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solitude
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Valeria Luiselli |
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The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering from want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.
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solitude
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Henry David Thoreau |
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"But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. It is true, I might have resisted forcibly with more or less effect, might have run "amok" against society; but I preferred that society should run "amok" against me, it being the desperate party."
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society
solitude
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.
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reflection
solitude
thought-life
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Beth Moore |
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Es que hasta la alegria que produce la presencia del hombre a quien se ama se siente mejor a solas. Si la presencia fuera de el continua, solo estaria presente en su constante transcurrir. Detenerla solo es posible en los ratos de soledad
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love
soledad
solitude
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Milan Kundera |
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One of the reasons that hiddenness is such an important aspect of the spiritual life is that it keeps us focused on God. In hiddenness we do not receive human acclamation, admiration, support, or encouragement. In hiddenness we have to go to God with our sorrows and joys and trust that God will give us what we most need. In our society we are inclined to avoid hiddenness. We want to be seen and acknowledged. We want to be useful to others and influence the course of events. But as we become visible and popular, we quickly grow dependent on people and their responses and easily lose touch with God, the true source of our being. Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.
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god
solitude
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Henri J.M. Nouwen |
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solitude is a sad thing, with no heart to which to confide your griefs.
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loveless
sadness
solitude
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Jules Verne |
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For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured. If Phillip was with her, the solitude she needed would be shattered, and along with it whatever wondrous thing might have come her way if she had been alone.
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solitude
transfiguration
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Kevin Brockmeier |
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Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.
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quiet
solitude
woods
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Charles Frazier |
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It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.
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fear
solitude
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Lois Lowry |
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The black land slid by and he was going into the country among the hills. For the first time in a dozen years the stars were coming out above him, in great processions of wheeling fire. He saw a great juggernaut of stars form in the sky and threaten to roll over and crush him... the river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. The river was very real; it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure, to consider this month, this year, and a lifetime of years. He listened to his heart slow. His thoughts stopped rushing with his blood.
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peace
real
river
solitude
stars
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Ray Bradbury |
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I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.' 'That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us.
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judgment
solitude
vain-hopes
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Anne Brontë |
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I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches with those who can.
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loneliness
marriage
solitude
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Diana Gabaldon |
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"The beauty of being human is the capacity and desire for intimacy. Yet we know that even those who are most intimate remain strange to us. Like children, we often "make strange" with each other."
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belonging
communion
divine-love
friendship
intimacy
longing
love
relationship
solitude
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John O'Donohue |
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With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author, offered advice to those in sadness -- learn something new.
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loneliness
solitude
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Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
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One of the rocks in my soulbag, a little grey rock that I had picked up on a certain day in a certain place in the hills above the river in the Silver Time, a little piece of my world, that became my world. |Every night I took it out and held it in my hand while I lay in bed waiting to sleep, thinking of the sunlight on the hills above the river, listening to the soft shushing of the ship's systems, like a mechanical sea
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solitude
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.
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solitude
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Patrick McGrath |
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The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place where travelers in language could know the same things.
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solitude
writing
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Don DeLillo |
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After long years of solitary meditation, Jenny had come to accept that, for her, magic was a depth and a stillness rather than the moving brilliance that it was for the great.
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meditation
solitude
stillness
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Barbara Hambly |
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To draw me out, the therapist asks what I did for the holidays. When I tell him he says gently (he says everything gently), Sounds like that's one of the ways your loss has affected you: not wanting to be with other people. Hating to be with other people, I don't say. Terrified of being with other people.
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grief
isolation
loneliness
loss
mourning
solitude
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Sigrid Nunez |
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Zu den glucklichsten Minuten, die ich kenne, gehort die Minute, [...] Menschen sind eine Anstrengung fur mich, auch Manner. Was die Stimmung betrifft, so mache ich mir nichts draus, wie gesagt. Manchmal wird man weich, aber man fangt sich wieder. Ermudungserscheinungen! Wie beim Stahl, Gefuhle, so habe ich festgestellt, sind Ermudungserscheinungen, nichts weiter, jedenfalls bei mir. Man macht schlapp! Dann hilft es auch nichts, Briefe zu schreiben, um nicht allein zu sein. Es andert nichts; nachher hort man doch nur seine eignen Schritte in der leeren Wohnung.
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solitude
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Max Frisch |
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Lorsque enfin il se sentit absolument libre, Harry s'apercut soudain que sa liberte etait une mort, qu'il etait reste seul, que le monde le laissait lugubrement tranquille, qu'il ne se souciait plus des hommes ni de lui-meme, qu'il etouffait lentement dans une atmosphere toujours plus rare de vide et d'isolement. La solitude et l'independance avaient cesse d'etre son desir pour devenir son sort et sa condamnation; le voeu magique etait formule et ne pouvait etre repris; cela ne servait plus a rien de tendre les mains, d'etre plein de desir et de bonne volonte, pret a l'attachement et a la communaute : maintenant, on le laissait seul.
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isolement
liberté
solitude
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Hermann Hesse |
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Samoca nije ziveti sam, samoca je kad nismo sposobni da pravimo drustvo nekome ili necemu sto se nalazi duboko u nama, samoca nije usamljeno drvo nasred puste ravnice, to je rastojanje izmedu skrivenih sokova i kore, izmedu lista i korena. Vi bulaznite, sve to sto pominjete medusobno je povezano, nema tu nikakve samoce, U redu, pustimo sad drvo, nego se zagledajte u sebe, i naci cete samocu, Kao sto rece onaj drugi, hodati usamljen kroz gomilu, Jos gore od toga, biti usamljen tamo gde ni nas samih nema, Danas ste uzasno raspolozeni, Imam i ja svoje lose trenutke, Nisam ja govorio o toj samoci, nego o drugoj, onoj koja nas prati, podnosljivoj, onoj koja nam pravi drustvo, Cak i nju ne mozemo uvek da podnesemo, vapimo za necijim prisustvom, nekim glasom, a ponekad taj isti glas i to isto prisustvo sluze jedino zato da ucine samocu jos nepodnosljivijom.
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solitude
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José Saramago |
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But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of a woman who had just begun to open her eyes to the wide world.
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solitude
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R.A. Salvatore |
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Siempre, a pesar de todo, habia deseado encontrar a un semejante: hombre, mujer, nino, no importaba. Sin la incesante influencia de las masas, el sexo perdia rapidamente importancia. En cambio, la soledad seguia en primera linea.
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human-extinction
loneliness
love
sex
solitude
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Richard Matheson |
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He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.
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maturation
self-confidence
self-criticism
solitude
talent
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Geraldine Brooks |
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Eu sonho com sangue, com uma solidao tao vazia que nem o eco sobreviveria nela e acordo a gritar, ensopado no meu proprio suor, e mesmo depois de acordar a sensacao solidao mantem-se durante algum tempo.
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solitude
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Christopher Moore |
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Zu den glucklichsten Minuten, die ich kenne, gehort die Minute, wenn ich eine Gesellschaft verlassen habe, wenn ich in meinem Wagen sitze, die Ture zuschlage und das Schlusselchen stecke, Radio andrehe, meine Zigarette anzunde mit dem Gluher, dann schalte, Fuss auf Gas; Menschen sind eine Anstrengung fur mich, auch Manner. Was die Stimmung betrifft, so mache ich mir nichts draus, wie gesagt. Manchmal wird man weich, aber man fangt sich wieder. Ermudungserscheinungen! Wie beim Stahl, Gefuhle, so habe ich festgestellt, sind Ermudungserscheinungen, nichts weiter, jedenfalls bei mir. Man macht schlapp! Dann hilft es auch nichts, Briefe zu schreiben, um nicht allein zu sein. Es andert nichts; nachher hort man doch nur seine eignen Schritte in der leeren Wohnung.
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solitude
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Max Frisch |
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He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it.
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solitude
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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the first lesson reading teaches us is how to be alone.
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solitude
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Jonathan Franzen |
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If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.
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morality
sanity
self-esteem
society
solitude
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Susan Wiggs |
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She was such a solitary woman. A solitary woman who longed for one person to know her. I think I do know her now, but it is too late.
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loneliness
relationships
solitude
understanding
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Jeanette Winterson |
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The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be.
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solitude
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John Cheever |
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I observe out of the corner of my eye that the man with the notebook is walking towards me and obviously intends to introduce himself. Why do human beings have to , I find myself wondering. Is it really necessary for us to make these noises?
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introversion
solitude
talking
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Graham Hancock |