1,686 Quotes About Solitude

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.