#solitude

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write ↗

— Pamela Glass Kelly

#solitude #write #inspirational

Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God and learns something of the secret of His perfections less by seeing than by fruitive love. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#love #solitude #love

Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love #philosophy #solitude #love

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#child #creation #himself #importance #isolates

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#instructed #only #society #solitude

Solitude begets whimsies. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#solitude

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#carefree #explains #free state #happy #houses

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. They are sluggish, yet more wayward, and never without a melancholy tinge. Sights and impressions which others brush aside with a glance, a light comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, adventure. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#social-anxiety #solitude #beauty

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#climb #echoing #feel #grit #heights

I owe my solitude to other people. ↗

— Alan Watts

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