Solitude Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

“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

“But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened…

— Charles Bukowski

“I was beginning to understand why my mother preferred solitude during the times that burdened her heart.”

— Sue Lynn Tan

“She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it. Of communing at last with another.”

— Amanda Coplin

“...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.”

— Paul Gauguin

“I think solitude chose me.”

— Gail Caldwell

“He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty…

— Terry Pratchett

“Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it.”

— Hermann Hesse

“solitude was bliss for now.”

— James Dashner

“Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.”

— Sunday Adelaja