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Quotes About Solitude

I'm a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.
~ Gisele Bundchen
We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
~ Joseph Conrad
Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
~ Agnes Macphail
With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.
~ Charles Bukowski
She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.
~ Alice Sebold
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
~ Carl Jung
My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.
~ John Kennedy Toole
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.
~ Saul Bellow
I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.
~ Jim Caviezel
...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.
~ Muriel Barbery
There are more experiences in life than you'd think for which there are no words.
~ Anita Shreve
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
~ Martha Beck
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
~ Fannie Flagg
There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.
~ Thomas Hood
Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
~ John Mayer
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
~ Max De Pree
If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
~ Adam Duritz
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
~ Andre Maurois
Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.
~ Stephen Colbert
surrounded by people but alone.
~ Jennifer Niven
You are not alone." Before I can tell him, Actually I am, which is part of the problem; we are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial
~ Jennifer Niven