„But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.“
Quelle: All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks
afroamerikanische Literaturwissenschaftlerin und Feministin 1952Ähnliche Zitate
— Arshile Gorky Armenian-American painter 1904 - 1948
Quelle: 1930 - 1941, from 'Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof' (2009), p. 132: in a letter to his sister Vartush Mooradian, after Mai 1938
— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014
We Had Him (2009)
Kontext: Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone.
Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him.
He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance.
Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that.
He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.
— James Russell Lowell American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819 - 1891
A Moosehead Journal.
Literary Essays, vol. I (1864-1890)
„Love is just another means of manipulation. We can use that emotion like we use hatred and fear.“
— John Twelve Hawks, buch The Traveler
Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Traveler (2005)
„How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?“
— John Steinbeck, buch The Grapes of Wrath
Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
— Joe Biden 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017) 1942
2021, November 2021, US President's Statement on Day 2 of the 2021 UN Climate Conference
— Fernando Pessoa, buch Das Buch der Unruhe des Hilfsbuchhalters Bernardo Soares
Os Grandes Trechos, s/n. Translated from the Portuguese Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006
The Book of Disquiet
Original: E então vem-me o desejo transbordante, absurdo, de uma espécie de satanismo que precedeu Satã, de que um dia [...] se encontre uma fuga para fora de Deus e o mais profundo de nós deixe, não sei como, de fazer parte do ser ou do não ser.
„We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.“
— Jean de La Bruyère, buch Les Caractères
Le commencement et le déclin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras où l'on est de se trouver seuls.
Aphorism 33
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
— Lisa Taddeo American writer and journalist 1980
Quelle: On women being told to control their own impulses in “Lisa Taddeo on her bestseller Three Women: 'I thought I was writing a quiet little book'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/06/lisa-taddeo-interview-three-women in The Guardian (2019 Dec 6)
„Like those dreams that have pleased us. They escape us and we vainly try to hold onto them.“
— Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824
„There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.“
— Seneca the Younger, buch Epistulae morales
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind
— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963
" Take Something Like a Star http://somethingbeautiful.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/robert_frost_to.html" (1949)
General sources
Kontext: O Star (the fairest one in sight)
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud —
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.
Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to be wholly taciturn
In your reserve is not allowed.
Say something to us that we can learn
By heart and when alone repeat.
Say something! And it says "I burn."
— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961
Quelle: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), p. 185
