"Alone, alone, oh! We have been warned about solitary vices. Have solitary pleasures ever been adequately praised? Do many people know that they exist?"
-Jessamyn West, Hide and Seek.
"The prohibition against solitude is forever. A Carry Nation rises in every person when he thinks he sees someone sneaking off to be alone. It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone."
-Jessamyn West, Hide and Seek.
"It is not good to be alone, even in paradise"
-Yiddish Proverb.
"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no thoer aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny thatn the one he forges for himself on this earth"
-Jean Paul Sartre
"The deepest need of a man is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness"
-Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving.
"The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone"
-G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles.
"Anything, everything little or big becomes an adventure when the right person shares it. Nothinh, nothing, nothing is worthwhile when we have to do it all alone."
-Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living.
"You may talk all you please of the misfortune of being "Old and Alone," but I tell you that approaches not one degree the misfortune of being young and alone."
-Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe by Andrew Turnbull.
"I intend to go there every day. It is entertaining and distracting. One can also be gloriously alone there in all that crowd."
-Sigmund Freud, The Letters of Sigmund Freud.
"A man who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps."
-Charles Parkhurst, quoted in Ladies' Home Journal, Circa May 1947.
"No man can cut out new paths in company.He does that alone."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes, edited by Max Lerner.
