Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. —Louise Erdrich in The Painted Drum More about this quote Tags: solitude love life risk vulnerability heartbreak yearning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them. —Doris Grumbach in Fifty Days of Solitude More about this quote Tags: solitude others presence assurance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email