Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family: but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
—Willa Sibert Cather
Showing posts with label solitude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solitude. Show all posts
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Post #3193
Sunday, January 16, 2022
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Post #2917
Man dwells: apart, though not alone,
He walks among his peers unread;
The best of thought: which he hath known,
For lack of listeners are not said.
—]ean lngelow
He walks among his peers unread;
The best of thought: which he hath known,
For lack of listeners are not said.
—]ean lngelow
Wednesday, February 06, 2019
Post #2758
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.
—Henry David Thoreau
—Henry David Thoreau
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
Post #2547
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau
—Henry David Thoreau
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Post #1967
Those beings only are fit for solitude, who like nobody, are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
—Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
Friday, January 31, 2014
Post #1470
Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.
—William Gilmore Simms
—William Gilmore Simms
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Post #1360
One can be instructed in society; one is inspired only in solitude.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Post #911
It is fine to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.
—Francis Kilvert
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Post #776
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
—Jack Kerouac
—Jack Kerouac
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Post #309
If from Society we learn to live
'Tis Solitude should teach us how to die;
It hath no flatterers.
—Lord Byron
'Tis Solitude should teach us how to die;
It hath no flatterers.
—Lord Byron
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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