1,686 Quotes About Solitude

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. … When you face your aloneness, something begins to happen. Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging. This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality.

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects