Sociability-Unsociability

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. (Charles Caleb Colton)

In solitude it is possible to love mankind; in the world, for one who knows the world, there can be nothing but secret or open war. (George Santayana)

We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. (W Somerset Maugham)

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility. (F Scott Fitzgerald)

He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company. (Sir Thomas Browne)

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone. (Erich Fromm)

When is man strong until he feels alone ? (Robert Browning)

At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy quite as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise. (Phyllis McGinley)