Solitude Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“What Karen wants to do - needs to do - is cry, but she can't. Here, alone, when she could howl, beat the sofa…

— Sarah Rayner

“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

“It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.”

— Stephen Richards

“When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.”

— bell hooks

“If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the entire universe.”

— Siren Waroe

“And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything…

— Vita Sackville-West

“about to make, but the idea had faded. Not for the first time that day, she wished the hall outside her door hadn’t become…

— Lynne M. Spreen

“Solitude is an inevitable circumstance.”

— Haruki Murakami

“But she was still operating on lonely-person principles, still worried that her happiness could be wrenched away at any moment, for reasons out of…

— Chris Pavone

“Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with…

— Paul Hoffman