people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwithout getting fed.
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Sometimes we find the sweetest solidarity in the midst of solitude.
I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, uncaring in the end.
... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.
Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.
My wilderness training was 4 years and 10 months of solitude, search and study.
Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Solitude shows us what should be society shows us what we are.
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Solitude is un-American.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Solitude vivifies isolation kills.
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.