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Quotes About Solitude

The arctic loneliness of age.
~ S. Weir Mitchell
It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her...
~ Alice McDermott
My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
~ Warsan Shire
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
~ Ferdinand Marcos
I'm lonely, but everyone is lonely So at least I know I'm not alone.
~ Eyedea
Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.
~ Parmenides
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
~ Barney Ross
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
~ D. H. Lawrence
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
~ Daphne du Maurier
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
~ Lord Byron
We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.
~ James Anthony Froude
I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
~ Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.
~ Vin Scully
Solitude is independence.
~ Hermann Hesse
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
~ Liberty Hyde Bailey
We read to know that we are not alone.
~ William Nicholson
The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.
~ Brad Mehldau
Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.
~ Carlo Dossi
I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God, get me a shot of tequila.'
~ Justine Bateman
Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
~ Steven Berkoff
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
~ Audrey Hepburn
Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
~ The Joker Heath Ledger