“Truth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness.” — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Unclaimed or abandoned bodies. There could be no stronger definition of loneliness.” — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it's better to be alone to know how your world goes around without the help of anybody else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At times, when loneliness seems to crush all beauty, the only way to resist is to remain open.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The state of being alone is truly invigorating. One should get accustomed with that in a slow and steady manner. However, it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“For those of us who have felt this broken piece that has left us unable to mate as others seem to do,… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“I hate all electronic toys: cell phones, e-mail, PalmPilots, handheld Global Positioning System equipment, and the whole raft of gadgets that intrude… — David Skibbins Copy Share Image
I think that I write much more naturally about characters in solitude than characters interacting with others. My natural inclination - and… — Stefan Merrill Block Copy Share Image
“This is the weird aftermath, when it is not exactly over, and yet you have given it up. You go back and… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Edward breathed in the sweet fragrance of the dogwood blossoms. The delicious air came into his lungs and passed into his blood,… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
“The human mind feels lonely even when there are so many organs and innumerable cells continuously functioning together in the body. Makes… — Nabil Bhatiya Copy Share Image
“Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I enjoy all this solitude, but on the other hand I miss being loved, given the attention I need a boyfriend aaaaaaaaaaaah.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.” — Mihail Drumeş Copy Share Image
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me. — Bradley Chicho Copy Share Image
I still find it difficult to cope with the solitude of writing. I often crave the feedback of working with a team. — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it. Of communing at last with another.” — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image