“Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company”
Lord Byron
“It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion”
African Proverb
“Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Strange how a teapot Can represent at the same time The comforts of solitude And the pleasures of company”
Zen Haiku
“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”
Jessamyn West
“leave a man in a cave long enough and he's bound to write on the walls”
Josh DeGeorge
