1,686 Quotes About Solitude

I don't socialize. I don't network. I hate parties. I love my solitude. I love my loneliness. I am living life fulfilling my responsibilities. I love wandering. I love silences.

Ho sempre voluto farcela da solo, con i miei sforzi, senza chiedere nulla a nessuno.

What will you choose? A life of solitude because you chose honesty or a normal life where lying is okay to get your stuff done.

He thrust his pelvis against his mattress, humping his pillow and thinking of no particular woman or memory, but merely the idea of being touched by someone—anyone. It was a sort of sorrowful pornography, masturbating to the day he would never need to masturbate. He closed his eyes and released on his sheets two fluids of desperation: semen of a lonely man and tears of a lonelier one.

Everyone has their own solitudes, and we can't just interpret them with our perceptions.

You walk around your kitchen and bedroom looking for something to do. You can—no. You did that yesterday. What is there? It seems what is harder than a hard life is an easy one.

Jude wrote: I’m writing this sentence to confirm: I think about the past, I’m scared to go out in public, I miss a lot of people, I long for connection but no one impresses me, and the future is scary. I have hope that I am not a stranger to this world. To know again, my only relief.

If happiness required me to ignore my thoughts and questions, then I hoped to never be happy.

Solitude is one of the most precious things in the human spirit. It is different from loneliness. When you are lonely, you become acutely conscious of your own separation. Solitude can be a homecoming to your deepest belonging.