It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
I had a fear of being alone.
The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.