Quotes About Solitude

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.

But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.