#solitude

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#introversion #introvert #philosophy #social #solitude

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#loneliness #solitude #strength #strength

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#divine #divine-intervention #emotions #energizer #god

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted. ↗

— Patrick Süskind

#solitude #murder

We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts. ↗

— Tamim Ansary

#alone-time #solitude #new-thought

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#evil #persons #society #solitude #than

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#need #solitude #someone #tell #you

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#mature #more #painful #solitude #young

I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one. ↗

— Freema Agyeman

#comfort #hotels #i #i believe #i love

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him. ↗

— James Salter

#reading #solitude #spiritual-needs #food