#Society & Solitude

[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

[furiastock]

Alma de lobo - Extremum Momentum.

[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

[eefrostpoetry]

in my solitude i only find chaos

[furiastock]

Alma de Lobo - Solus Taciturnus.

@furiastock

[gregor-samsung]

The Swedish Theory of Love (Erik Gandini, 2015)

[paperbacksunday]

A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this tonelss, flat, normal and sterile life. I have mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself. ... For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and propserous brood of mediocrity.

— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

[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.