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Quotes About Solitude

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
~ Woody Allen
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
~ Charlie Brown
We read to know we are not alone.
~ William Nicholson
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
~ Cyril Connolly
Sometimes it's just easier to tell a stranger than to tell the people you are close to. The freedom of speech is my liberation from solitude and if you should take that negatively or with annoyance then that's on you to look the other way.
~ Unknown
My earphones are what set me free from all the bullsh...
~ Unknown
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if hes does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Being Free Means Being Lonely.
~ Unknown
Of course I talk to myself, sometimes I need expert advice!
~ Unknown
I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.
~ Bill Watterson
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
~ Anthony Burgess
It is better to live alone in the desert than with a crabby, complaining wife.
~ Unknown
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.
~ Unknown
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I restore myself when I'm alone.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
~ Marilyn Monroe
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I am alone I am always alone no matter what.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I restore myself when I'm alone.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends.
~ Marilyn Yalom
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
~ Marilynne Robinson