Quotes About Solitude

When gloaming treads the heels of day And birds sit cowering on the spray, Along the flowery hedge I stray, To meet mine ain dear somebody.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.

My social life is much better, since I stopped spending it with other people.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.