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Quotes About Solitude

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
~ Salman Rushdie
To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.
~ John Cleese
I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet.
~ Martin Scorsese
The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.
~ Stephen Fry
Now that I'm married and have two beautiful children, it really makes me appreciate... being alone.
~ Jim Gaffigan
I only bleed when I'm all alone
~ Myles Kennedy
You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.
~ Gayle Forman
Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.
~ Francine Prose
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
~ Anton Chekhov
We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.
~ Martin Lindstrom
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
~ Thomas Browne
I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.
~ Jenny Holzer
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.
~ Karin Slaughter
I am nothing. I'm like someone who's been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.
~ Haruki Murakami
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
~ Lillian Hellman
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.
~ Robert Breault
As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.
~ Sienna Miller
We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.
~ Nick Nolte
Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
~ Pablo Picasso