“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“If life is a book we write, it should be a book of dreams. And even if they don’t all come true, at least the story will still be amazing.”
Eytan Rockaway
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
Barbara De Angelis
“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
Albert Einstein
“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion”
African Proverb
