Quote by Alan Bradley

“Two people who live their lives alone in rooms doing strange, gentle things can sometimes be together in the middle of a dangerous storm…

— Samantha Hunt

“When two persons are too close, they fall apart.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most…

— charlie huston

“intimacy that can be had, even in a crowded room, when two people want only”

— Jacqueline Winspear

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is…

— Simone Weil

“All these openings for closeness--all these humans with their disappointments and their desperate hearts, but it's so much easier, so convenient, to blame emotional…

— Courtney Maum

A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse…

— Novalis

Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.

— Nigel Dennis

“A whisper thin layer of civilization separates men from animals,”

— Diane Capri

“Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Man is a gregarious creature, we are told, a social being. Does that mean he is also a herd animal?...Are men no better than…

— Edward Abbey

“Three very crowded hours went past. They involved quite a lot of phone calls, telexes, and faxes. Twenty-seven people were got out of bed…

— Terry Pratchett