Quotes About Solitude

All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

I can write anywhere.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

I'm on my own now. I have my own apartment.

Being on your own sometimes is appealing.

For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.

Life gives us but one friend,

This empty and deserted house is a vast enigma of which the answer is known to none.

tengo más celos de un pensamiento que de todas las mujeres juntas. El amor es inmenso, pero no es infinito, mientras que la ciencia tiene profundidades sin límites a las que yo no podría verte ir solo.

Rien ne grise comme le vin du malheur.

Je suis venu me réfugier ici au fond d'un château, comme dans un monastère.

What do you do, gentlemen, when you place a man in solitude? You isolate him.

to find this kind of love, you have to enter deep country.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person.

I hate the common herd of men and keep them afar. Let there be sacred silence: I, the Muses' priest, sing for girls and boys songs not heard before.

I only needed one person at my side... one was enough... even if the rest of the world turned its back on me.

What keeps this boy going...is the intense feeling of not wanting to be alone.

When a man was alone too much, he had only himself to look into, and what he found there was all manner of darkness.

Just as the body takes time to recover from an infection that has afflicted it, so the soul needs times of silence and solitude for its recovery from the insane pace of modern life.

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead.

So fuck off to fuck-off land and leave me alone.