“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.” – Jung
“For me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse (than loneliness). I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone to mull over any encounter and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.” – May Sarton
“To the deserts go prophets and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.” – Wallace Stegner
“I love all waste and solitary places where we taste the pleasures of believing what we see is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.” – Shelley “Julian and Maddalo”
“If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods. On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably dying.” – Emerson
