Eric Hoffer Quotes on Solitude
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
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By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.
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Disraeli felt that 'nothing could compensate his obscure youth, not even a glorious old age.' Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.
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A man by himself is in bad company.
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What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.