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Quotes About Solitude

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
~ Dodie Smith
Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
~ Emily Dickinson
When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.
~ Franz Kafka
Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.
~ Jeff Kinney
I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
In a very cold night, even houses want to have houses of their own to enter inside them and feel warm!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I only want to sleep . . . and never wake.
~ Alan Grant
I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere.
~ Hamilton Leithauser
Listen," she said. "I may not be what you want right now, but I'm all you've got.
~ Jodi Picoult
I want you to know, that when you are lonely, I will be lonely too.
~ Lady Gaga
Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound.
~ A. R. Rahman
My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.
~ Amanda Donohoe
The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
~ Anais Nin
You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.
~ Anne Rice
I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.
~ Ariel Pink
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
~ Bill Bruford
People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
~ Bradford Cox
I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.
~ Brenton Thwaites
I would prefer not to be living with anyone, really. Like, as much as I care for my special friend, I don't want to live with her.
~ Chester Brown
I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.
~ Daniel Johns
You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.
~ Dar Williams
People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.
~ David Karp