1,686 Quotes About Solitude

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty and there I make it work.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

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