Solitude | Once Upon a Time in China Town | Kuala Lumpur
© 2015 Wazari Wazir | Solitude in China Town
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
– Hery Miller –
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
– Nikola Tesla –
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –
“You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.”
– Henry David Thoreau –
“To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.”
– Joseph Krutch –
