“Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid”
Karl Kraus
“It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion”
African Proverb
“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
“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
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“I owe my solitude to other people.”
Alan Watts
“I know I have within myself... a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people who just meet me can't because I'm generally very fun and gregarious. But I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going. I always felt that that was his kind of form of escape, in a way.”
Gerard Butler
