Solitude
"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."
-Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."
-Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647

"Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream."
-Roger Rosenblatt, The Man in the Water, 1994

"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

"Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude."
-Miguel de Unanimo, Essays and Soliloquies, 1924

"We are rarely proud when we are alone."
-Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764

- posted by Patricea Chow-Capodieci @ 13:14