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Quotes About Solitude

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
~ Buddha
When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
and sadness clung to mebecause she did not knowhow to be alone.
~ AVA., you are safe here.
There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.
~ Alfa H
We ain't alone in this universe.We just don't wanna be disturbed.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.
~ Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl
Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.
~ PureDragonWolf
I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance
~ John J. Geddes
It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Work alone is noble.
~ Thomas Carlyle
My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.
~ Debbie Ford
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
~ James Douglas
Darkness was my best friend and loneliness my soulmate.
~ Luna Marym
When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
~ Barry Jenkins
There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.
~ Claire North
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
~ Marilyn Monroe
There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Smile and the world smiles with you...Weep and you weep alone.
~ Jazlyn Roehl
the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation
~ Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.
~ China Miéville, Embassytown
I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.
~ Melissa Sue Anderson