solitude

There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.

There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdrawal into a subjectivity which refused existence to any reality or law but its own. During these postwar years he had lived in solitude and carefully planned ignorance of what was happening in the world. Nothing had importance save the exquisitely isolated cosmos of his own consciousness. Then little by little he had had the impression that the light of meaning, the meaning of everything was dying. Like a flame under a glass it had dwindled, flickered and gone out, and all existence, including his own hermetic structure from which he had observed existence, had become absurd and unreal.

We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is to not know who we are intended to be or what we are supposed to serve in life.

Solitude is the spirituality of the soul.

I find myself in the moment of solitude.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte

Life, time and nature are the three greatest gifts to mankind.

When some give you advice, say 'thank you'. Then, you must seek the quietness of your spirit for a reflection and direction.

Solitude is heaven bliss.

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink. This submission, this triumph made her stronger. It was as if finally, after having passed through inferior stages, her life had found a form worthy of it.

For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

My fear of loneliness is like a disease.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

You don__ know what it means to be betrayed! Should I explain it to you? It means to be treated like trash and your feelings get stepped on_you get hurt over and over again and in the end you are left alone!Can__ you see how much I care for you? How hard I__ trying to connect with you?When did I ever betray you? When did I ever leave you alone?