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Quotes About Solitude

I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.
~ Wangari Maathai
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
~ Edward Abbey
I havent had the whole famous thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.
~ Brenton Thwaites
I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious
~ Emily Dickinson
The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.
~ Anthony Liccione
He who understands humanity seeks solitude
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
~ D.H. Lawrence, Women in love
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
~ Caleb Carr
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
~ Adlai Stevenson I
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
~ Steven Wright
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
~ Pete Wentz
An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
~ James Joyce
I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.
~ Demetri Martin
So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.
~ Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?
~ Marc Maron
Hermits have no peer pressure.
~ Steven Wright
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.
~ Daniel Handler
Sometimes I get really lonely. Especially when I'm throwing a Frisbee.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
~ Libba Bray
Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
~ Charles de Gaulle
If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
~ Mark Twain
Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.
~ Joel Hodgson