Sentence examples for simple solitude from inspiring English sources

Eleanor spent her later years in the simple solitude of Val-Kill, her home in Hyde Park, N.Y., surrounded by old political allies, new friends and an abundance of family members, who discovered an Eleanor mellowed with age.

Plain and simple solitude.

Thoreau offers words of wisdom for those who may find themselves unwillingly separated from a lifetime of property that they have worked hard to amass: "As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness".

It seemed the night enhanced the simple pleasure of solitude, and in the quiet of the empty car I focused upon the pressure of steering wheel beneath fingertips, the pull between clutch and accelerator, the glide from third to fourth.

Lavish patronage and the traffic of pilgrims often complicated and compromised the solitude and simple life of forest monasteries, but forests, rivers, and mountains constitute an important factor in the Buddhist ecology of human flourishing.

There, one is met at the ferry by the owner of one of the local tavernas, and brought back to a modest home to enjoy simple accommodation, sunny afternoons, solitude and excellent peasant cooking.

'Planning and Solitude' is a simple strategy that offers a way to break the reactivity cycle so many of us find ourselves in.

For many people, though, the desire for extreme solitude may have simpler roots, she noted: "It could be because they want a mystical experience.

Reflections from this chaotic evening forced me into a state of solitude which inspired this simple piano progression.

Visitors may be reminded of the still-life paintings by Giorgio Morandi -- a master of the still life -- who captured the quiet solitude of the studio through the simple objects he portrayed.

Of course, I'm thinking about Agnes Martin and the silence and solitude of her paintings, with their seemingly simple geometric compositions, most often consisting of several horizontal stripes.