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Quotes About Solitude

There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"
~ Robin Williams
I don't have any social life or anything.
~ Rod Stewart
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
~ Salman Rushdie
It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.
~ Sarah Ruhl
I like my life alone.
~ Sarah Silverman
Happily, though we must each walk through life on our own, we don't have to do it alone.
~ Sheri L. Dew
The only person you will live your entire life with is yourself.
~ Sonia Friedman
Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
~ Sophie Swetchine
Life is very long, when you're lonely.
~ Steven Morrissey
The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end
~ T. S. Eliot
Too many heroes in my life. All gone.
~ Tatjana Soli
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
~ Tennessee Williams
Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.
~ Tenzin Palmo
Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.
~ Thomas Gray
Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.
~ Tim Lebbon
My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
~ Tom Robbins
I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.
~ Umberto Eco
I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.
~ Werner Herzog
You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.
~ John Carpenter
I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.
~ John Green
It is said that life is too short, and that's quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.
~ Jonathan Hull
This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone.
~ Joshua Radin
None of the rest of my life figures here.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.
~ Julian Fellowes