Geoff

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron

“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”
― Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now

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

“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby