I Think We Are Alone Now

[commonpeople1]

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.--Goethe

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare.--Kenko Yoshida

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.--James Russell Lowell

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.--Albert Einstein

More solitude

Comments

[millionreasons.livejournal.com]

I disagree with Einstein - I loved being alone when young(er) but now find it a bit oppressive.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I loved both when younger but didn't know it. Nowadays, it's hard for me to find that solitude. When I get it, I feel recharged.

[jellyfish93.livejournal.com]

yes, yes and yes.

[wink-martindale.livejournal.com]

Tove Jansson and silence:
http://towardsamagazine.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/tove-jansson-the-silence-inside/