Companion Quote by Anonymous

“Every person tries to flee himself—yet despite ourselves, we remain attached to this self which we hate.”

— Titus Lucretius Carus

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

— Ferdowsi

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

— Nadine Gordimer

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he…

— Raymond B. Fosdick

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

— Rajneesh

We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for it is…

— Samuel Johnson

“He who seeks may easily get lost himself. All solitude is wrong": so say the herd. And long did you belong to the herd.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have always been alone, always self-centered and fearful of opening yourself to other persons, for to do so is to risk rejection and…

— Julian May

One can run away from anything but oneself.

— Stefan Zweig

“For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.”

— Frederick Douglass

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and…

— Simone Weil