“It's 3:35am in the morning. I am standing in an open doorway, peering into a dark wood, wearing only a pair of thermal long johns. Snow is drifting onto my face from a moonlit sky. My heart is pounding. And I am holding an axe. Was it a falling tree branch that caused the noise that woke me? Or is t…”— Sam Parker, esquire.com
“And yet at the very same time, like most men, I am drawn to the idea of solitude. Why wouldn't I be? The story of man on his own – unlimited by society, discovering greater truths about life and nature – can be found everywhere. It's in the founding religious texts and the epic poems of the ancient…”— Sam Parker, esquire.com
“We began as disparate tribes, scattered across a giant and unfathomable earth, unaware each other even existed. We settled and built communities. We explored, and merged civilisations. As the population grew, we invented new ways to communicate with each other — always quicker and from greater dista…”— Sam Parker, esquire.com
“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it’s worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets.”— Michael Finkel, amazon.com
“It is better to be alone than to be with someone who can’t see who you are.”— E. Lockhart, amazon.com
“Be willing to go alone! Many who started with you won't finish with you.”— Tony Gaskins Jr., twitter.com
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”— Douglas Coupland, amazon.com
“I felt the most burning desire for once to be quite alone with my thoughts for a little while.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“It’s become as natural and right to be alone and silent that I don’t know how I can shift over to company.”— Martha Gellhorn, amazon.com
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”— Nikola Tesla, npr.org
“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for dinner or coffee. And it has been like that from the beginning.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com