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Quotes About Solitude

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.
~ Frank Herbert
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
~ Mason Cooley
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
~ Molly Haskell
I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.
~ Azar Nafisi
Sometimes isolation can be shared.
~ Ken Grimwood, Replay
Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)
~ Ai Yazawa
I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.
~ Maria Isabel Barreno
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
~ Margaret Cho
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
~ Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
~ Joan Collins
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
~ Berthold Auerbach
We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.
~ Sara Maitland
And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.
~ Anita Loos
Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.
~ Taylor Swift
What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
~ Muriel Rukeyser
Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.
~ Stuart Appleby
The strongest men are the most alone.
~ Henrik Ibsen
I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.
~ Robin Williams
I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
~ Tallulah Bankhead