“I owe my solitude to other people.”
Alan Watts
“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.”
William Penn
“the intelligence community owes the president (an explanation) rather than the president owing the American people.”
David Kay
“It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion”
African Proverb
“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid”
Karl Kraus
“I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.”
Peter Hoeg
