Quotes About Solitude

As an only child to be there when your parents say goodbye, that's tough.

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

I get up around 4 every morning because it's the only time I can find time for myself.

There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

I enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.

I'm better not operating at center stage.

I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy, said the Dragon-fly

Soñador es aquel que sólo encuentra su camino a la luz de la luna y cuyo castigo es ver el alba antes que el resto del mundo.

the secrets of art are best learned in secret, and that Beauty, like Wisdom, loves the lonely worshipper.

It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

Don't speak. Let me think, or, rather, let me try not to think.

Egotism itself, which is so necessary to a proper sense of human dignity, is entirely the result of indoor life. 

I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

Other people are quite dreadful.  The only possible society is oneself.

How alone I am in life! How terribly alone!

Um sonhador é aquele que só consegue encontrar o seu caminho ao luar e que, por castigo, vê o alvorecer antes do resto do mundo.

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.

Jdu proti Ã…â"¢ece, v Ã…â"¢ece je stÃ…â"¢íbro a zlaté listí. Jdu sám a najednou si uvÄ›domuji, že tu nehoukají auta, abych uhnul, a nedrn?í tramvaje, abych couvnul. A to je vlastnÄ› ten hlavní d?vod, pro? jdu na Å¡tiky.

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit. (To live well is to live concealed.)

or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.

From that time on she lived in lonely caves.

Errabat nudo per loca sola pede. She was wandering barefoot through lonely places.

I'm lonely, Jeeves.' 'You have a great many friends,sir.' 'What's the good of friends?' 'Emerson,' I reminded him,'says a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature,sir.' 'Well, you can tell Emerson from me next time you see him that he's an ass.' 'Very good, sir.