Author of quotes: Michael Finkel

Even if we are surrounded by family and friends, towards death we go alone.

Modern life seems to create all the conditions to avoid loneliness. But maybe it is necessary periodically to deal with? The more we avoid being alone, there is weaker than our ability to survive, and the more it frightens us.

The world is a strange place, filled with meaning and utterly meaningless at the same time.

He went to the woods because I realized that the world is not made for such as he. In his youth he was never happy - either at school or at work or surrounded by people. And it made him constantly nervous. There was no place for him, and not to suffer, he just ran away. It was not so much a protest as search for the best places. He was like a refugee, hiding from the human race. The forest offered him shelter.

In prison, in a sense, it was better. Now that he is formally free, it had become clear that this is not freedom.

Dedication Chris the loneliness was absolute.

Life inside books always seemed to find attractive. Anything she demanded of them, while the real world of human relationships were so complicated.

I used the anxiety to think. Excitement can be a wonderful stimulus for the survival and life planning. And I needed a lot of planning.

Too pampered, too dangerous. Anxiety in the proper dosage was useful, perhaps vital.

And I had a long period of peace... but no, not the world. The world is too pathetic a word. Say better - for a long period of calm.

Waiting did not trouble Chris, patience was one of his strengths.

Or are you hiding, or not progress can not be.

Improving ourselves has become his hobby.

He hoped that any fatal error will not put an end to his solitude.