Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
Interpretation
Being alone can foster inner strength, but it also highlights the pain of solitude.
This quote reflects on the paradox of solitude; while it can fortify an individual’s resilience and independence, it can also lead to deep feelings of loneliness and isolation. The speaker acknowledges the strength gained from being alone, yet simultaneously expresses a longing for companionship that has seemingly vanished. This duality captures the complex emotional landscape of human experience, where personal growth often comes at the cost of connection with others.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, this quote can illustrate how solitude can build resilience.
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.
When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
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