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Quotes About Solitude

I have zero desire to be in the limelight.
~ George W. Bush
It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
~ Archibald Rutledge
Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
~ Gilbert Ryle
Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.
~ Teresa Medeiros
We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.
~ Cecile de France
During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays
~ Stanley Elkin
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
~ E. M. Forster
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.
~ N. Scott Momaday
In the town of broken dreams the streets are filled with regret, maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget.
~ Ricky Nelson
Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.
~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto
You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.
~ Matthew Ashford
Most of my work is done when everyone else is asleep.
~ James McBride
I get really excited thinking about being in the world without a lot of people.
~ Ruben Fleischer
I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.
~ Kim Gordon
I guess I've been existing in my own head a lot.
~ Laura Jane Grace
Christmas is not a time for laughter. Christmas is a time for pain.
~ Claudia Winkleman
I have learnt to enjoy my own company because I have lived alone many years.
~ Winnie Byanyima
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
~ James Anthony Froude
I just want to be left alone.
~ Tony Bellew
Once in a while, the universe lets you be free alone and in peace.
~ John M. Grunsfeld
Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.
~ Anthony Marra
A troll's life is a no-physical-contact existence. You will die alone, as you die daily, online.
~ Greg Gutfeld
Obviously, sometimes in the summer, when you're by yourself in the gym, you lift, you run... it gets hard sometimes. It gets hard sometimes; I'm not going to lie.
~ Dirk Nowitzki