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Quotes About Solitude

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.
~ Andy Warhol
Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
~ John Milton
Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.
~ Rajneesh
I even made love to myself once. Uhh, I wasn't suppose to tell you that.
~ Gary B.B. Coleman
It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.
~ Henry Rollins
I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.
~ Jacob Lofland
The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.
~ James Taylor
The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.
~ Kenny Chesney
I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy
~ Kyffin Williams
I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.
~ Bill Bryson
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.
~ Brad Meltzer
I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.
~ Eva Herzigova
Solomon warned us not to rush into God's presence with words. That's what fools do. And often, that's what we do.
~ Francis Chan
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
~ Rajneesh
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
~ Susanna Clarke
Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.
~ Sylvia Plath
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
~ Thomas Merton
Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".
~ Craig Thompson, Blankets
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.
~ Chris Weitz
Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave.
~ Helen Fielding
As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.
~ Sally Brampton
I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.
~ Sue Townsend