Drink Quote by Anonymous

I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a…

— Iris Murdoch

I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it…

— Iris Murdoch

Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must…

— May Sarton

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while…

— May Sarton

It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can…

— Richard Ford

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

— Alice Hegan Rice

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less,…

— Haruki Murakami

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.

— Eugene Ionesco

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

— Publilius Syrus

“To enter solitude, we must disregard what others think of us. Who will understand this call to aloneness? Even our closest friends will see…

— Richard J. Foster

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

— Ingmar Bergman