Quote by Hermann Hesse

“the true solitary does not seek himself, but loses himself.”

— Michael Finkel

“To be alone: icy, iron terror, foretaste of the grave, forerunner of unpitying death. Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another's…

— Robert Walser

“Now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an…

— Virginia Woolf

“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed, silent and…

— Philip K. Dick

“Sometimes you must embrace the feeling of being abandoned, until your deepest self warms to the thought of you being its closest companion.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“A man becomes a solitary at the moment when, no matter what may be his external surroundings, he is suddenly aware of his own…

— Thomas Merton

“I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“There is no loneliness more profound, in my experience, than being ignored by one's sole companion in life.”

— Rick Yancey

“He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.”

— Sreesha Divakaran

“Like a real traveller, he looks for whatever he has in common with the people he encounters, to a point where the sense of…

— Mateo Cabello