5 Eric Hoffer Quotes on Solitude

Eric Hoffer quotes on solitude

59. 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.

131. 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.

157. 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.

160. A man by himself is in bad company.

223. What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.