Rogers, Will -- “Weekly Article” column (1935-01-20)
Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers. Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist“Weekly Article” column (1935-01-20)
View ArticleEverybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy...
If you are looking after happiness don’t take the turnpike, take one ov the byroads, yu will avoid the tollgates, and find it less crowded and dursty. [If you are looking after happiness, don’t take...
View ArticleCitadelle [The Wisdom of the Sands], ch. 46 (1948) [tr. Gilbert (1950)]
Where the heart is in the giving, there is no question of goods that are being traded thriftily. In giving, you throw a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
View ArticleByron, George Gordon, Lord -- “The Giaour,” ll. 969-970 (1813)
Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet“The Giaour,” ll. 969-970 (1813)
View ArticleKrutch, Joseph Wood -- Baja California and the Geography of Hope,...
There are many people who want (or think they want) silence, solitude, and unspoiled nature just enough to push into and destroy all three. They will push as far as, but no farther than, good roads...
View ArticleDe Stael, Germaine -- Quoted in Margaret Goldsmith, Madame de Staël (1938)
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) Swiss-French writer, woman of letters, critic, salonist [Anne...
View ArticleHolland, Barbara -- One’s Company: Reflections on Living Alone (1996)
No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary. Barbara Holland (1933-2010) American authorOne’s Company: Reflections on Living Alone (1996)
View ArticleFrye, Northrop -- The Educated Imagination, Talk 1 “The Motive for Metaphor”...
One person by himself is not a complete human being. Northrop Frye (1912-1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theoristThe Educated Imagination, Talk 1 “The Motive for Metaphor” (1963)
View ArticleBukowski, Charles -- “Oh Yes,” You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes...
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it’s too late and there’s nothing worse than too late. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)...
View ArticleTaylor, Barbara Brown -- An Altar in the World, ch. 7 (2009)
It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people’s company. Liking to be quiet can be...
View ArticleBukowski, Charles -- Barfly (1987)
I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they aren’t around. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) German-American author, poetBarfly (1987) From the movie screenplay by Bukowski. This is the way the phrase...
View ArticleBukowski, Charles -- sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the...
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) German-American author, poetsifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way, Part 2, epigram...
View ArticleSarton, May -- Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1965)
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. May Sarton (1912-1995) Belgian-American poet, novelist, memoirist [pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton]Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids...
View ArticleSarton, May -- “Gestalt at Sixty,” sec. 1 (1972)
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it....
View ArticleSarton, May -- Journal of a Solitude (1973)
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any...
View ArticleChabon, MIchael -- “The Loser’s Club,” Manhood for Amateurs (2000)
Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake, a challenge that seeks the password, a heliograph flashed from a tower window, an act of hopeless optimism in the service of bottomless longing....
View ArticleMartial -- Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book 2, epigram 38 [tr. Pott & Wright (1921)]
You ask me how my farm can pay, Since little it will bear; It pays me thus — ‘Tis far away And you are never there. [Quid mini reddat ager quaeris, Line, Nomentanus? Hoc mini reddit ager: te, Line, non...
View ArticleCicero, Marcus Tullius -- “Laelius De Amicitia [Laelius on Friendship],” ch....
If a man should ascend alone into heaven and behold clearly the structure of the universe and the beauty of the stars, there would be no pleasure for him in the awe-inspiring sight, which would have...
View ArticleBarrett, James Lee -- Shenandoah (1965)
ANN ANDERSON: Here’s something else you must remember: husbands like to be alone once in awhile. JENNIE ANDERSON: Why? ANN ANDERSON: You never know why, but I can always tell when James wants to be...
View ArticleWelles, Orson -- In Someone to Love, film (1987) [written and directed by...
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. Orson Welles (1915-1985) American writer, director,...
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