#Society & Solitude

[furiastock]

Alma de lobo - Extremum Momentum.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

[syppys-den]

This is unironically how I'd write Krypton

don't worry, this version is less idiotic and Dystopian

[dk-thrive]

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society & Solitude (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1870) (via Dylan O'Sullivan via Wait-What?)

[amorasepoemas]

Eu tenho algo que não consigo decidir

Se é um defeito ou não ser assim...

Quando algo ruim acontece,

Um atraso na minha mente aparece

E, algumas horas ou dias depois,

A ficha cai

Meu mundo desaba

E toda a emoção acumulada,

por meio de lágrimas, desagua.

- Amora

[worldlywritr]

The Solitary Path

The man who treads his solitary path

Will never merge with the world,

Each attempt to belong

Wounds his very soul.

He prepares for life's extremes

Loneliness, a silent shadow,

Kindness, a fleeting touch,

Cruelty, a sharp reminder.

He walks his own road, steadfast.

He steps forward, knowing the cost,

Embracing isolation and the rare touch of warmth.

Each moment is a trial, each day a test,

But in his heart, he carries the truth:

The road less traveled is his alone.

[letsberealgenz]

in silence

I found silence to be home

I found silence to be virtue

I found silence to be comfort

I found silence to be peace

I found silence to be healer

I found silence to be the answer everybody’s searching for

In silence I found myself

I found myself in silence and in silence

I found everything that I have been looking for

- ak

[ipessimist1]

Some of us favor our solitude over the company of others. We seek out silence like the moon seeks out the night because there are days when our stars burn out and running from the sun is the only way to protect their glorious glow.

[theinwardlight]

Look not out, but within… Remember it is a still voice that speaks to us in this day, and that it is not to be heard in the noises and hurries of the mind; but it is distinctly understood in a retired frame. Jesus loved and chose solitudes, often going to mountains, to gardens, and sea-sides to avoid crowds and hurries; to show his disciples it was good to be solitary, and sit loose to the world.

William Penn, 1694

[natalia-hart123]

me in a nutshell

[furiastock]

Alma de Lobo - Solus Taciturnus.

@furiastock

[eefrostpoetry]

in my solitude i only find chaos

[gregor-samsung]

The Swedish Theory of Love (Erik Gandini, 2015)

[brahmaninandigam]

Learn to stop searching for your Worth in other's Actions!!

[ethereal-string]

I needed an escape, a place to breathe.

I needed me more than anyone else.

But I and me, we sat together,

It was only then we realized we have never been enough

We will never be enough.

[lucianjablonsky]

Presence

Of things that could have been our own, Of memories that never were shown, You remind me amidst years unendingly, No one more than the ghost of me A whisper in the air, covered in dust, An unsettling thrill, yet craved with trust, Your presence, more alive than I could be, And yet you remain just the ghost of me Haunting me endlessly, day and night, With every thought, every glance in sight, Showing me what we could have shared, life's decree, If only you weren't the ghost of me ~ Thousand Years Alone