Anxious Quote by David Markson

The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we…

— Doris Grumbach

And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary,…

— Anonymous

It was so lovely to discover how unlonely being alone can be

— Unkown

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were…

— Anonymous

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

I was one of the loneliest people on the planet. You can be incredibly well known and very alone. And thats who I was.…

— Sheila Walsh

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was…

— David James Duncan

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

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

— Charles Bukowski

Solitude was corrupting me.

— Vladimir Nabokov