1,686 Quotes About Solitude

He loved solitude, for fear that others might find out his sexual abnormality.

Solitude causes more wounds than it was ever meant to heal.

Sade never got into the habit of concerning himself with what other people were thinking and feeling. As with Genet, the soil in which perversion grew was habitual solitude and constant frustration of the need to feel loved.

I'm much happier on my own. I can spend as much time with somebody as I want to spend, but I'm not looking to be with somebody forever or live with someone. I don't want somebody in my house.

Let me be Another invisible, Used and forgotten and left To whatever narrow miseries I make for myself Without anybody asking What's wrong. Concern for my soul offends me....

I’m paving my own road, confronting (or at least trying to confront), the storm the only way I know how: from a quiet place of solitude and reflection where all my demons can be heard the loudest. I don’t do this because I like their song. I do this because I want them dead.

Other people just possess you, she'd told her friend, the butcher. Is that so bad ? he'd asked. To be possessed ?It's the worst fate of all, she'd say. The donkey skin, she thought, was everything else in the world; it was solitude : anonymous, bloody, and happy ever after.

Being alone is great for all the small stuff. Seeing whatever you want at the movies. Eating in that weird way you can only eat by yourself. Going on vacation wherever you like. Being alone is ideal for eavesdropping, for really relaxing, and at times for forcing me to be sociable.

There is exposure in living one’s life alone.