Quotes About Solitude

When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

I want to be left alone.

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

I don't mind being alone when I'm surrounded by people, I just hate being alone when I'm alone.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.

Being alone makes us stronger. That's the honest truth. But it's cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone.

I sit in thy shadow but not alone.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Feeling alone guides the mind.

It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.