Quotes About Solitude

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I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.

but I am the sort of person who does not seem to need the day-to-day emotional support provided by normal civilized social contact.

A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

This scene is adapted to my temper. Its mountainous asperities supply me with images of desolation and seclusion, and its headlong streams lull me into temporary forgetfulness of mankind.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Do you hate people?" "I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying." ?Charles Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain angle, alone, or with Meagan nearby, and now and then, if I'm lucky, I'll come across a lovely phrase or fine sentiment, look up from my book, and feel the harmony of some notion, the justice of it, and know that everything is there. That's life to me, those privately discovered moments. I wouldn't settle for less, yet I don't expect a whole lot more, either.

All by myself, wrapped in my thoughts,And building castles in Spain and in France.