There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
Oscar WildeThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous HuxleyI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James BaldwinThe land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.
Bob DylanWe make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.
Russell M. NelsonYou cannot be creative with people around you.
Karl LagerfeldOnly by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
John MuirThe experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
John C. MaxwellSatisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur SchopenhauerSolitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston ChurchillAh, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert CamusThere is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John RuskinTo live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Arthur SchopenhauerIf you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
J. R. R. TolkienGreat men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur SchopenhauerPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil GibranGod is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John LennonI never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Adam SandlerPoetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil GibranThe time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EpicurusAs you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David ThoreauReading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIt is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur SchopenhauerYou do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz KafkaThere is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma BombeckWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George EliotI restore myself when I’m alone.
Marilyn MonroeMaybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.
George BestWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
AristotleI have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalLove is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen KellerAfter the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.
Tom BradyIn football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.
Cristiano RonaldoWe cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan WattsHow can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz KafkaThe person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund BurkeI felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
BonoThe aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
AristotleWith fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
BuddhaThe monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert EinsteinThe coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand RussellThere’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.
Paul AusterIsolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Thomas CarlyleIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EpictetusNext to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
William Makepeace ThackerayThe loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
Maya AngelouBut I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
Alan WattsOf course I get hurt.
Jackie ChanThe worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis BaconThere is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl JungAll pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
Kendrick LamarNature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur SchopenhauerSolitude is independence.
Hermann HesseIt is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonI think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Charles SpurgeonThe figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert FrostMuch of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Khalil GibranI owe my solitude to other people.
Alan Watts