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Quotes About Solitude

Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
~ Anthony de Mello
I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
~ Barbara Feldon
The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.
~ Bertrand Russell
I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.
~ Brian Eno
Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.
~ Brigitte Bardot
I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching Dancing With the Stars or reading a Danielle Steel novel. I'm kind of boring.
~ Britney Spears
I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and just look at the mountains.
~ Bruce Dern
in this room the hours of love still make shadows.
~ Charles Bukowski
You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.
~ Charles Dickens
Sometimes you know that no one can replace the person you love, and your heart will never be the same.
~ Cheyenne McCray
I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.
~ Christina Ricci
I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.
~ Dan Chaon
'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.
~ Daniel Handler
I love having an open seat next to me on the train. What's even better is when my seat is open too because I just stayed home.
~ Demetri Martin
I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.
~ Douglas Booth
He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
~ Etgar Keret
We love the night and it's quiet.
~ Fitz James O'Brien
I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.
~ Francis Chan
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
~ Francoise Sagan
I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.
~ Frederick Lenz
I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.
~ Freema Agyeman
I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten anyone whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.
~ Larry David