“A man can be himself alone so long as he is alone … if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
~ C.S. Lewis
"The tiger and the lion may be more powerful. But the wolf does not perform in the circus."
~Earl Derr Biggers