David Thompson

“I have become solitary,” wrote the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “because to me the most desolate solitude seems preferable to the society of wicked men which is nourished only in betrayals and hatred.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

“To speak little is natural. Therefore a gale does not blow a whole morning nor does a downpour last a whole day.”
― Lao Tzu

“As I moved about the room I would encounter that silver wedge of a moon at this window or that, like some old beggar who wished to be invited in.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo