May Sarton Quotes About Solitude
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Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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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.
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Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
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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 length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.
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At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
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