Alone Quote by Virginia Woolf

“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

“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

“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

“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“...there seemed some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to him that he had been alone…

— Joseph Roth

“Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion like a perfectly faithful twin. He was…

— Faraaz Kazi

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

— Sreesha Divakaran

“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

“Standing in the center of the crowd, his solitude was enormous. He felt that in all the vast and frozen space in which he…

— Robert Goolrick

“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

“Someone who seeks nothing but his own fate no longer has any companions, he stands quite alone and has only cold, universal space around…

— Hermann Hesse