“Solitude seems to oppress me. And so does the company of other people.” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together. [p. 23]” — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It was a melancholy day indeed when the sister of solitude was Sunday's silver lining.” — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
You're lonely not because no-one accepts you but because you don't accept anyone into your world. — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“So you have chosen aloneness. You have chosen the security and the relative freedom of solitude, because there is no risk involved.… — Chelsea Fagan Copy Share Image
“Being alone is not the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
“If you do not know where to go in the middle of a bridge, make the bridge as your destination and combine… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to a fellow evangelical, McHugh's sense of spiritual failure would make… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
If I get bored being alone. I go ahead and take a ride and sing with my loneliness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Loneliness is A Special Enjoyment When Chosen By Our self, But It kills you hardest, When Gifted By Others¦ — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
You can still feel lonely with new people around because you need that home base. — Jacob Elordi Copy Share Image
“It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Me personally, I feel like I need my space so I like to spend my off day by myself. — Deebo Samuel Copy Share Image
Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose. — Guillermo Maldonado Copy Share Image
One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor” — Vignesh S Copy Share Image
“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the world of self-discovery where undiscovered you buds.” — Akshmala Sharma Copy Share Image
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is better to be alone because it gives you some time to be who you are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image