Quotes About Solitude

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind

I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world's progress has come out of such loneliness.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good

Remember we're all in this alone

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it.

The hardest mile I ever walked was the one away from you...

Giving up is difficult but it's time to let go. Because sometimes you are fighting alone.

I'm better off without you. I can manage on my own. And you can still have your perfect life. You can have it all alone.

I'm better off without you. I just wanna be alone tonight. I just wanna take a little breather because lately all we do is fight.

Our love kills the place.. I'm better off without you, yes I'm better off alone.

Goodbye forever. I'm glad we're not together.

I'd rather be happy and alone then with you and miserable.