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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.
There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.
For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?
The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.
Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.
Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.
Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.
Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.
There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.
[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
I grew up in Michigan. I feel like a lot of my childhood was in solitude, in the woods or making tree forts.
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.
The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.
the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
Service is a powerful pathway of getting out of loneliness. It takes the focus off of you and puts it onto someone else.
I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living
Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.
Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.
I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.
Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.
..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.
