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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die;
It hath no flatterers; vanity can give
No hollow read more
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die;
It hath no flatterers; vanity can give
No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive.
I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.
I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.
So lonely 'twas that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.
So lonely 'twas that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the read more
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious read more
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and
the flowers faded.
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and
the flowers faded.
I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is read more
I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answer to everything, but I'm tired of being alone.
That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that
he was ever less alone than read more
That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that
he was ever less alone than when alone.
[Lat., Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus
solum quam cum solus esset.]