Empty Quote by Edith Wharton

“No, solitude did not trouble her. She could spend long minutes gazing out the window, hours listening to the BBC on the public radio…

— Daphne Kalotay

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

— Edith Wharton

She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of…

— Anonymous

“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“She bade solitude good-bye. Good-bye to no schedule but whim; good-bye to her life among no things but her own and each always in…

— Annie Dillard

“In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude…

— L.M. Montgomery

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

— Toni Morrison

“Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential to her.…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little…

— Stephen King

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit…

— Doris Lessing

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

— Tillie Olsen

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a…

— Louis Bromfield