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«Life is precious to the old person. He is not interested merely in thoughts of yesterday's good life and tomorrow's path to the grave. He does not want his later years to be a sentence of solitary confinement in society. Nor does he want them to be a death watch.»
Author: Dr. David Allman
| Keywords:
confinement, Death sentence, Good Life, old person, sentenced to death, solitary, solitary confinement, The Grave
«No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Art,
Danger,
Death and dying,
Fear,
Life,
Society,
Violence
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Bad art, brutish, continual, letters, nastier, nastiest, nasty, short letter, solitary, violent, violent death
«In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.»
«It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it»
«It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them?. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.»
«If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Pleasure
| Keywords:
available, delights, dictators, ecstasy, independence, madmen, solitary, The Dictators
«If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.»
«I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Loneliness
| Keywords:
breaking off, breaking point, break off, fixed, fixed point, Gazer, gloomiest, gloomy, point of view, solitary, The Wild, wanderer, wanderers
«In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude»
Author: Thomas Merton
| Keywords:
age of, crowds, determined, lament, lamenting, solitary, threshold, thresholds
«My fiftieth year had come and gone,I sat, a solitary man,In a crowded London shop,And open book and empty cupOn the marble table-top.»
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