#solitude

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#solitude #poets

there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.... ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#solitude #poets

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#solitude #poets

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#solitude #loneliness

Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers. ↗

— Laurie R. King

#life

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#solitude #bad

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. ↗

— Robert Browning

#feels #hears #his #once #peopled

In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. ↗

— صادق هدایت

#life

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. ↗

— Paul Valery

#companion #created #feel #finding #gave

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #created #express #glory