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*The cafés are all deserted,
The streets are clear again.
There's nothing quite like an out-of-season
holiday town in the rain.
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-Chris DeBurgh
Into The Light, 1986
"Fatal Hesitation"
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Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
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-Thomas Fuller
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~I believe there is a time
for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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-Billy Joel
Turnstiles, 1976
"Summer, Highland Falls"
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When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we
do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-
ourselves.
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-Eda LeShan
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Only when one is connected to one's own core
is one connected to others... And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can
best be refound through solitude.
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-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Solitude, in the sense of being often alone,
is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in
the presence of natural beauty or grandeur, is the cradle of thought and
aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society
could ill do without.
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-John Stuart Mill
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*The young man hoped he
would not have to die.
Not if the earth could look like this, he thought. Not if he could hear
the hope and the promise like a voice, with leaves, tree trunks and rocks
instead of words. But he knew that the earth looked like this only because
he had seen no sign of men for hours; he was alone, riding his bicycle down
a forgotten trail through the hills of Pennsylvania where he had never been
before, where he could feel the fresh wonder of an untouched world.
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-Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, 1943
Part Four : Howard Roark, Ch. 1
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No greater grief than to remember days
of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
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-Friedrich von Schiller
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Great souls suffer in silence.
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-Friedrich von Schiller
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart
Act I, scene iv
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater
part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome
and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that
was so companionable as solitude.
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-Henry David Thoreau
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Language has created the word 'loneliness'
to express the pain of being alone, and the word 'solitude' to express the
glory of being alone.
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-Paul Tillich
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