#solitude

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

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. ↗

— Russell Banks

#solitude #spend #time #total #working

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. ↗

— Robert Browning

#feels #hears #his #once #peopled

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#beauty #bush #find #focus #heart

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

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. ↗

— William Cowper

#charms #dwell #face #horrible #midst

Language... 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