Simone de Beauvoir

"I was made for another planet altogether; I mistook the way."

— Simone de Beauvoir

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Three o'clock. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

— Jean-Paul Sartre (La Nausée, 1938)

Mary Oliver

"Ordinarily I go to the woods alone, with not a single
friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore
unsuitable.

I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of
praying, as you no doubt have yours.

Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible, I can sit
on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost
unhearable sound of the roses singing.

If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love
you very much."

— Mary Oliver, from How I Go To The Woods