“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"Self-Portrait" (1936), p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950) <br class="br">Variant: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Lin Carter book The Wizard of Zao
Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 5 (p. 69)
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Context: When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked.... In other words, I don’t improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.
“And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Final Empire
“Happiness is the moment when one doesn't feel pain.”
Bobbejaan Schoepen (1925–2010) musician, performer
HUMO, (2005)
Mark Kac (1914–1984) Polish-American mathematician
Source: Enigmas Of Chance (1985), Chapter 2, Lwów, p. 29.
Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet
Quote from a 1995 interview with Rudi Fuchs; in 'Appel, about growing older'; as quoted by Frank van der Ploeg, in 'The Low Countries'. Jaargang 12(2004) http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_low001200401_01/_low001200401_01_0027.php
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (6 March 1780)
