1,686 Quotes About Solitude

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.