Talk:Solitude

These are two separate things! 71.195.30.165 00:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Seconding the not-merging vote. The wikipedia article tries to make clear that solitude and loneliness are two different things, "loneliness is unwilling solitude" (wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness) 64.89.150.64 17:14, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

No, please don't merge! Solitude implies peaceful, calm, meditative, intentional while loneliness implies sadness, desperation, and is usually unintentional.

Another vote for keeping them both separate. Not only are they different things, but I think keeping the two apart has a sort of deep, appreciable irony.

Again I agree, loneliness is absolutely different from solitude.

I agree too! Just look it up! We shouldn't merge this. I think it's clear that we all agree on that. Solitude is being isolated willingly (you know, get away from civilization for a break) while loneliness is being isolated unwillingly (you want civilization).

No, no, please don't merge! Contributions/115.118.194.18 13:10, 15 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge declined. BD2412 T 18:53, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * 高处不胜寒
 * English equivalent: It's cold at the top of a mountain.
 * Chinese proverb


 * The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells.
 * African proverb


 * I'm not lonely, I'm just alone.
 * Angel from Angel tv series.


 * Solitude is not a voice, just an echo.
 * Giannina Braschi, "Empire of Dreams"


 * I don't wanna be lonely, I just wanna be alone.
 * Daniel Johns of Silverchair


 * Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
 * Carl Gustav Jung


 * Follow my ways and I will lead you To golden-haired suns, Logos and music, blameless joys, Innocent of questions And beyond answers. For I, Solitude, am thine own Self: I, Nothingness, am thy All. I, Silence, am thy Amen.
 * Thomas Merton, The Solitary Life.


 * When everything has left you, you are alone; when you have left everything behind, there is solitude.
 * Schiller from the song "Solitude".