Quotes About Solitude

There's a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

I want to be alone with my thought.

There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.

We're all alone in this world.

Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

When I'm all alone and I'm by myself, little Peter keeps me company.

Lotus Eaters is a movie about people who can't really be alone, but they're always alone, really, even when they're together.

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.

And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.

as a childi supposei was not quitenormal.my happiest times werewheni was left alone inthe house on asaturday.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.