Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude, and even at … - Rollo May

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Opposites though they are, both solitude and solidarity are essential if the artist is to produce works that are not only significant to his or her age, but that will also speak to future generations.

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

When one read’s Kierkegaard’s profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche’s amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.