2,622 Quotes About Alone

People who hate solitude have very low standards when it comes to the company they keep.

Solitude was the friend of the smuggler, and was undoubtedly on good terms with the scout as well.

I see you want us all to go. I don't know what you want to do.""I want to be alone," said Isabel.

Solitude is not the only possible parent of boredom: we sometimes find ourselves bored to death while we are with someone, a few people, or even many people.

I, unlike the vast majority of people, do not find solitude intolerable. As a matter of fact, I enjoy solitude, so much so that there is no dead or living person whose company I preferred, would have preferred, or prefer over my own.

If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot.

When your person of comfort can't fill or lessen the hole in your heart, you are lost. Bitterly lost. And no one, no matter how much you want it, will be able to fill the emptiness within you.

It is absolutely indispensable, for most people, especially for the like of me, so thin-skinned and so confused at being, to get into perfect seclusion of mind from time to time and to be well alone

Among other things, friendship is a mutual fight against solitude and boredom.